Procter & Gamble Reviews in Cincinnati, OH Area

Pros

Great team great culture, work with creative talent people make the working day enjoyable and always give you the opportunity to improve

Cons

too many layers before the decision to be made, not enough anatomy for individual development and slow decision making process

Advice to Senior Management

The senior management should be more open about their decisions to employees rather than the small group considered inside the circle

Pros

Opportunity to grow over a number of year, highly ethical company, good work/life balance.

Cons

Is it too big to grow?

Pros

It's a top notch company and only recruits the best talent. Less than 0.1% of applicants are hired each year. You'll learn so much and grow tremendously working for P&G.

Cons

Because we hire so many great people, competition is stiff. And the bottom 3% each year are put on a performance plan and coached out if they don't improve.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should continue to push us to meet goals and keep our values, never forgetting the people who really drive the company. I think that's happening and should continue.

Pros

The people of Procter & Gamble are some of the brightest, strategic and creative in the industry
The work is inspiring and challenging
The pay and benefits are competitive
Work life balance and focus on healthy living
Incredible training opportunities
Deep consumer understanding
Global company with opportunity for travel and assignments abroad

Cons

Very competitive environment, especially in Marketing
Very process driven company, which can gets in the way of speed and agility
Size and complexity of company can be daunting

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to invest in your people
Create flexibility in the system to allow for different processes and approaches
Reduce complexity

Pros

People, Culture, Principles, Values, Purpose, Great Brands, Strong leaders.

Cons

Salary/Compensation is capped at each band/job level no matter how well you do, the job is only worth so much

Advice to Senior Management

Need to figure out a way to continue to compensate top performers at each band beyond salary.

Pros

Opportunities to do so many different things. You're constantly being challenged by the new opportunities for growth and development.

Cons

Like any big company you can get bogged down in the bueracracy.

Advice to Senior Management

Take out layers.

Pros

1. Great people to work with
2. Challenging work

Cons

1. Networking is key
2. Upward Mobility can be slow after few years

Pros

unbelievable training ground, smart people, lots of flexibility with career path.

Cons

in addition to building the business, you have to build the organization like developing large scale trainings or run the united way campaign with a team. If you don't do enough, you're penalized during annual reviews when the people who have no lives outside of work trump you.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop direct placement & let people interview for roles they want not roles you put them into directly. You're resurrecting the 'Proctoid' reputation.

Pros

large well respected company. Broad range of research oppertunities available with in the company makes finding your area of interest easy

Cons

Some history of viewing 4 year degree's or nonscience degreed R&D personel as a pair of hands. This seems to be inmproving in recent years

Advice to Senior Management

A lot of progress has been made in empowering employees with the open job posting system in which internal jobs are posted so everyone in the company can see/apply.

Pros

Very good technical foundation
Good foundation in understanding how products make it to market
Understanding consumer need and how to drive it to market
Promote within

Cons

Very competitive when it comes to promotions
They benchmark with other companies
Need to be more competitive in recruiting
Need to recruit all over USA

Advice to Senior Management

Better direction to continue to grow employees to help them achieve the next level in their careers. Continue to understand employees work life balance