Procter & Gamble Reviews

Pros

it offers flexible, independent roles

Cons

1300 hrs maximum part-time, no full time opportunities for retail merchandisers.

Advice to Senior Management

more flexibility in working more than 1300 hours maximum part-time.

Pros

P&G is a Marketing person's dream to work for. High challenge competetive environment. You are given on the job training constantly.

Cons

Not for people who don't want to contribute long long hours. High stress. The company engulfs your life. Most of the people working there are alpha types, which creates a very competitive company culture.

Advice to Senior Management

P&G could benefit from more work life balance. Other than that, I think the company is doing well beyond its competitors

Pros

P&G truely values it's people and invests in their people. It is a promote from within company.

Cons

P&G is HUGE. It takes a lot of approvals to get anything done.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep putting your people first.

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

Procter & Gamble is a highly respected company and puts a lot of resources into its interns. They expect you to work hard.

Cons

The locations are not the best. Gillete is the only brand in a reasonable location. Most jobs are in Cincinnati.

Pros

Flexibility. Offers opportunities for more quality time with family. Home life

Cons

High workloads. Can be frustrating

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to hire talent from within. Several capable and knowledgeable internal candidates get overlooked. Can be discouraging and damper morale and productivity.

Pros

Pay is not too bad

Cons

Shift work is all over the place. Management doesn't care how it effects the hourlys. Only 3 sick days and you can get written up if you use them.

Advice to Senior Management

Respect your employees

Pros

Work From Home Option
Job Stability
Compensation

Cons

Very Political
Unnecessary Complexity in Wok
Lack of Good Managers

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure those in positions of managing others are qualified to do so

Pros

being able to lean the new things through the work as well as the leadership skills to grow my self faster.

Cons

takes time to make a decision by following standard approval process and a variety of measures to be cleared to do that.

Advice to Senior Management

focusing on the opportunity markety by investing resource would be right choice and considering what is next at the same time is also great.

Pros

varied assignments, opportunities to develop professionally

Cons

complex organizational structure can be difficult to navigate
work life balance is not always possible depending on area you work in