Get in, get trained, get experience, get out! - R&D/PS Procter & Gamble Employee Review

2.0
Jul 16, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great training and experience from the start. Benefits are great too if you are able to make if in the company long term. If you are lucky to land in a position with a great manager with a clear career path with established timeline expectations, there is POTENTIAL for long term success and career growth.

Cons

In contrast to the Pros, career progression has slowed and career paths blurred. If your management is not straight with you on when and what role you will be working towards, get out. If there is a clear path and role, but then the timeline is missed for when that opportunity is supposed to start, get out. If you request to be transitioned to a new business (for example, R&D to Product Supply), make sure to ask if this will impact your career progression/promotion. If you join P&G in a position that is not where you want to be long term, be clear with your manager on making a clear path and timeline to that next role. Again, if the manager cannot make it happen or timings are missed, get out. P&G is set up to keep employees who are in roles they don't like uncomfortably comfortable the longer you stay, meaning you will dislike your job, but you can't leave because 1) you're tied to P&G because of the benefits, 2) you may be close to vesting, and 3) you can't leave because YOU'RE NOT GETTING THE EXPERIENCE IN A POSITION YOU WANT TO BE IN MAKING IT HARD TO LEAVE AND APPLY TO JOBS YOU TRULY ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT AND START ENTRY LEVEL BECAUSE OF LACK OF EXPERIENCE. If you can piggy back on the nepotism and favoritism that's rampant in the company, do it (everyone else is). Otherwise expect to wait minimum 15 years to get into a position worthwhile long term.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

training in in depth, training on job, basic star interview questions good company, stable benefits are somewhat cheap

Cons

training can be a lot, you have about 1-2hr presentations biweekly where you get tested on different aspects of the plant, like steam system, water system, utilities etc, training can last up to 6 months paid once a month, irregular times on call, may have to work weekends depending on machines work long shifts, sometimes up to 16 hours depending on how machines run, expected to be at work by 6am for safety meetings, 5am sometimes depending on the site you work at, expected to stay if machines run poorly can be demanding- most entry level managers are fresh out of college and expected to train and manage individuals who have worked at the company for decades not very easy to change departments, takes a couple of years no matching 401k, they have their own profit sharing thing, if you quit before 3-4 years at the company, you lose the money

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