Used to be great, not any longer - Anonymous employee Procter & Gamble Employee Review

3.0
Aug 3, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

People quality is very high, learning opportunities are strong, especially during the first few years. Good business school with strong multifunctional exposure. Good flexible work life programs in place, though not equally utilized in different functions/countries of hubs.

Cons

While it was greatly entrepreneurial place still few years back, it became process/complex systems driven vs business need focused. More and more of the critical decisions are taken by the headquarters which results in declining in touch with the market, consumers, customers - and big delays, not to mention that internal transactions are up to 80% of the work. A lot of arrogance, politics and positioning in some of the regional teams - people are capable to sell few years market share decline story as big success (!).

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Cons

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