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Anheuser-Busch InBev

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Anheuser-Busch InBev reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(4,553 total reviews)
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Michel Doukeris

75% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Anheuser-Busch InBev has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 4,553 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Anheuser-Busch InBev employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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5K reviews
3.0
Apr 19, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

In St. Louis, most of the people are still first-rate; carryovers from the "old A-B" when the rewards attracted the best & brightest. This is changing with layoffs and people leaving to find better jobs. People still try to work together (within departments and across departments) to get the job done right. One good thing about new management: They are accessible and down to earth. In this respect, an improvement and very refreshing.

Cons

If you take a job here, know that you will be doing the work of 2 - 3 people since all departments were cut into the bone. Transition to InBev is being horribly mismanaged. Employees are being told benefit cuts, salary freezes, etc. are due to "the economic environment" but everyone knows A-B is doing just fine! Total compensation is now being re-set to the 50th percentile of marketplace. Quality employees are leaving, and more will leave once the job market opens up. Much is made of the opportunities available in the "meritocratic" environment but this only seems to apply to Director level and above. Low-class things being done in the name of cost-cutting; pay bills in 120 DAYS!, micro-manage (or eliminate) necessary business tools like printer paper, continuing education, etc.

3.0
Aug 9, 2021

How to fix a great culture?

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Impactful work, some flexibility to move around, autonomy to make decisions (ownership culture), people with passion (in some pockets of the company) about what they do.

Cons

Evolve mindset around Flex Work, the company (c-level leaders) sees remote work in a negative way. The environment in the US is highly political, the culture is broken in many aspects, but ultimately when leaders are more interested in their own agenda than working to build together something meaningful for the organization, you start eroding trust between teams, something essential for the company to innovate.

2.0
Oct 3, 2019

Anonymous

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits, free beer, decent pay. Some of the people are great, and can become life long friends. Nice office, parties, happy hour on Friday’s where you could bring a beer to your desk while you work.

Cons

You constantly have a 12 hour work load which you are supposed to get done in an 8 hour day. The office is extremely open with cubicles everywhere, meaning there are a TON of distractions constantly and you have no privacy to get your work done. Sometimes it can be fun because you’re always surrounded by people to talk to, but if you’re around people you don’t like then that can really make or break having a good day vs. a bad one. There is no such thing as “an 8 hour work day.” Try 9,10, sometimes 12 hour days. Work/life balance does not exist. Every year on the employee survey it gets a terrible rating. They always want you to go above and beyond what’s expected, but there is literally no way to do that unless you’re putting in 50-60 hours a week. In fact, if you were to leave when you’re ALLOWED TO LEAVE (at the end of your shift), you will become the talk of the office and will probably be spoken to by management for leaving ON TIME. They will find something about your work to complain about and use that as an excuse to getting on to you about going home. Not to mention there is no OT pay during the week. When it comes to the office politics, AB takes it to a whole new level. There are plenty of people who “play the part” and just get promoted without having successful results in their work. Yet when it comes time to showing why you should be promoted, all AB management wants to see is numbers. If you want to get promoted, all you have to do is really suck up to senior management and have “ok” numbers and you’re good to go.

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