Procter & Gamble Reviews

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

For the position I work (soon to be worked) in, the flexibility of scheduling work to fit within my home life was favorable.

Cons

Affordable Health care is not provided for part-time employees; P&G takes advantage of our personal vehicle by not paying for all of the drive-time/mileage accrued to complete work assigned by them; POP materials required to complete a work assignment frequently occupiy the entire trunk and back seat of vehicle; hourly wage is quite low and pay raises are few and far between

Pros

Good training opportunities and great work life balance

Cons

Operates in silos and lack of opportunities for employees in non-headquarter locations

Pros

Endless career growth opportunities if you are prepared to fit the stringent P&G mold and are happy to work your ass off and have no work life balance (something the company constantly preaches about).

Cons

Agressive and political leadership, completely insufficient training and development for the responsibility placed on new grads. Great place to develop your corporate politics and upward management skills, marketing and brand management skill development is secondary.

Advice to Senior Management

Implement a proper training and development program for new marketing grads, place new marketing grads under the management of senior brand managers, not new and inexperienced ones.

Pros

Great health insurance and other benefits.

Cons

They need to slow down and smell the roses...

Advice to Senior Management

Stop taking jobs overseas...

Pros

Good compensation, good benefits, good training. P&G has well developed processes and business models that are hugely successful. Great place for someone to start with and get excellent training in several functional areas.

Cons

Career advancement based on who you know and not on what you do if you aspire to move beyond the band 2 level. Networking and developing key relationships with the "right" people absolutely essential. Without it, there is no chance to succeed. Very prescriptive company that stifles innovation despite their rhetoric to promote innovation. Fairly typical of a large company - doubtful it is much different elsewhere.

Advice to Senior Management

A wide disparity in the application of PVP, respect of others and other core values of the company - this is evident at senior levels. If there is toleration of this disparity then it is condoned at the top. If P&G is serious about their core values, they need to set an example and remove those individuals who view themselves impervious to acceptable behavior and have their own interpretation on the core values.

Pros

The pay was very high

Cons

It was impossible to get anything done because nobody would ever be around to help, and everything must be approved. And then I got a bad review because of this.

Pros

career, compensation, friendly atmosphere, possibility to get international assignments people taht you work interact with and overall development opportunities you have.

Cons

tends to be somewhat an advocacy type career. also, sometimes the internal competition between people becomes not ideal way to pull energies of people to build the business

Advice to Senior Management

nothing really spectacular apart from considering to give up the advocacy type decisions and only look at the facts and resulys

Pros

Great development opportunities
Great people and work environment
State of the art processes and systems

Cons

Limited long-term career opportunities for experienced professionals (jobs,locations)

Pros

You are able to make your own schedule you decide when you come and go. The work is never monogomous.

Cons

You are ranked based on your degree. They basically think your degree decides how capable you are at fullfilling your jobs. Engineers are praised here.

Advice to Senior Management

Be able to explain why one new hire engineer comes in two levels higher than someone in physcial or life sciences in R&D only, no other functions do this.