Procter & Gamble Reviews

Pros

Great benefits. Lots of free stuff. Lots of extra money by doing panels

Cons

If you can keep up with the work...they will keep giving you more and more and more and more. Then when you can't keep up....you get a bad review. Some managers use their employees to help further their career. Stuffy environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to understand your employees. When they tell you their work load is getting to heavy...listen!!!

Pros

learn some product R&D process

Cons

it is boring sometimes to do programming

Advice to Senior Management

more traninging and communication

Pros

Great place to learn, excellent training, very high quality people with strong integrity. Opportunity to work on great businesses both big and small. Great profit sharing program and compensation programs are very fair.

Cons

Takes too long to get promoted, and promotions feel like they're based on personal connections in the "boys network" vs. actual results delivered. Culture is becoming more cut-throat as a result. Also, drive towards efficiency is killing creativity. Marketers are becoming process owners and paper pushers rather than developing creative mastery.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more consistent about the criteria for promotion so that it's about what you do rather than who you know or work with. Stop making Marketing the "catch all" for whatever work other functions don't want to do any more.

Pros

Very respectable and honest company. Promotion from within. Job security is probably one of the best amongst the competitors. Many different locations

Cons

slow career and salary growth especially in high cost areas such as SF and NY. Salaries are based on a national avg so folks in Cinci get a good deal but not the ones that work in SF/NY

Advice to Senior Management

Simplify. Decisions take too long

Pros

You get a Phd in Marketing and understanding of how to run a business. True consumer understanding and abilities to develop long term campaigns is a big plus.

Cons

It's a giant company with many layers of management and slow timing from lower levels to director. Once hit director level your viability to available jobs is extremely limited, you are placed for assignments vs. directing your career yourself.

Advice to Senior Management

In order to continue to recruit, retain, and develop talent there needs to be the right mix of levels and the right mix of compensation.

Pros

Trainings offered (Career, Technical)
Value personal and career development
Job security
Friendly and personable people

Cons

Long chain of management before decisions are made
Slow Promotion/Career Track
Located in the Midwest

Advice to Senior Management

Reduce the number of managers
Base promotion on job performance rather than an employee's "connections"
Less complex organizational structure
Smaller teams to make decision-making and work more efficient
Better laptops

Pros

A perfect platform to learn how to be a great leader, as well as many opportunities for learning via trainings. In addition you learn more than just marketing, as you are a general business leader.

Cons

Heavy workload that seems to grow every year with less and less resources available (although this could be because of the current crisis).

Advice to Senior Management

Currently management needs to better understand the needs of the workforce at all levels of the company, as many times different treatment is given to those working in headquarters, in regional offices, and in local offices.

Pros

Fantastic training
Responsibility from day 1
Great opportunities for travel
Will develop you to be a General manager
The talent around is very high
You are so marketable outside
Products are fun

Cons

As the ethics are so strong, you will probably have a rude awakening when you leave that people don't have the same value system

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing your stuff

Pros

Good company
Fair with employees
career opportunities for advancement
caring for people
Good performance rating system
Good mobility if you want to continue growing

Cons

Sometimes, compensation is not fair enough
Some senior managers should be more focused on letting their direct reports grow
Budget constraints

Advice to Senior Management

Continue rewarding performance and giving employees opportunities for growth. Keep on innovating on employee front and to be rated as a great place to work

Pros

Learn: you will get a lot of opportunities in the first 5 years to learn a great deal about your job, the business in various categories and countries.

Cons

Every single year you will get a rating, with the threat of having a performance issue plan for a non satisfying performance. Whilst this is fine with a good manager it can become hell with a bad one. And the day they are looking for savings, suddenly a lot of managers become below average performers. The percentage of burn out is amazing and the common practice of showing the door just after people return doesn't help to put plans in place to cope with it.

Advice to Senior Management

Face it: the reason why the average age is 35 is because you kill the older people. Either they quit because they feel to odd sitting in the company restaurant or they get fired just after they burn out.
be realistic and start hiring the right people for the job: the ones that like pushing buttons. The systems are great, reason why you just don't need to keep experienced people.