Great marketing company, steep learning curve, but too much complexity and not so great culture and management. - Assistant Brand Manager Procter & Gamble Employee Review

4.0
Jul 17, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

One of the top companies when it comes to reputation in marketing & FMCG industry, and compensation & benefit (salary increase is annual & very significant, good benefit package). Fresh grads from school are given significant opportunities to lead a business from the start & influence & make great things happen. Very steep learning curve, ample training opportunities. Marketing function is a great place to be when you're into marketing and are just straight out of school.

Cons

System is very complex & slow, needs strong people skills and connections to navigate through the system to get things done. Where I work, culture is almost nonexistent. Management many times cannot make up their minds, causing rework for lower levels. This happen probably partly due to the "promote from within" practice, when some people who stick around long enough will get promoted whether they really deserve it or not. Also, despite the many classroom trainings, the culture of personal management coaching is not strong.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

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Cons

-Unfortunately this generation of VPs, SVPs Presidents, C-Suite and CEO are among the worst I've ever seen; soul draining culture and "frantic" versus thought-through strategies. Because P&G is up-or-out, unfortunately everyone who is at that level all operate the same: an obsession with work, high panic which ultimately leads to beating down on the organization to do more while not actually caring about the employees. There is an enormous mental health crisis in the Procter & Gamble walls right now that HR and leadership is just simply not looking to change because business results are more important to them -Career growth is a joke - 100% politics, 0% merit. Some of the most recent appointments within the company are very good examples of this specifically with multiple promotions to executive levels with questionable results and known emotionally abusive issues but are mentees of the CEO -Very weak compensation structure vs CPG peers (even though P&G does not think this). They claim cost of living in Cincinnati makes it competitive but if they did a true deep dive on total comp structure, P&G is abysmal after your first 2 years there

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