Heineken Reviews

Pros

Family owned company, with opportunity

Cons

Just another number at the end of the day

Advice to Senior Management

Value your employees

Pros

Presitigous brand
Lots of fun parties and events

Cons

Lack of formal training
Chaotic business proccesses
Very political
Poor package

Pros

The brand name is very powerful so it is always a good thing to put such a company on your CV. Also the work-life balance is good.

Cons

There is no clarity as to the company culture.

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

- Challenging assignments (for an intern) that have a major impact on the local brewery
- Great atmosphere on the job, helpful and friendly colleagues.
- excellent secondary benefits for an intern position (house, car, gasoline, airfare)
- work with multiple divisions

Cons

- Not enough feedback
- You have to figure everything on your own.
mentor is often too busy with its own work.

Advice to Senior Management

- Provide more feedback to interns.
- Continue to work with undergraduates as interns so that they can get a sence of the company and working in different divisions

Pros

There are some great brand names to work for, exciting activities to participate into, lots of people to meet, places to travel and lots of free beer (of course)

Cons

Shabby and very dirty offices, ignorant and arrogant senior management who think they know all and have absolute opinions even when they know shite about something, no feedback whatsoever given about your performance (not even on paper!), micromanagement from top management (ever got a report you've written back with typo corrections in red ink??), low wages, no chances of promotion whatsoever

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to listen, learn to discuss