Procter & Gamble Reviews in Singapore, Singapore Area

Pros

Great products. Early responsibility with tremendous opportunity to learn and grow leadership skills. Outstanding internal training program. Companies values and principles are a corner stone and help bring everyone together

Cons

Can be slow in making and driving decisions. Capable people can get stuck in job.

Pros

Good exposure to well known worldwide brands
Healthy training and leadership development in early years
Comprehensive understanding of the business from day ONE
Competitive salary and benefits package for fresh graduates

Cons

Extremely slow promotions
Salary raises are almost unnoticeable - single % rises in two years
Terrible work life balance
Rewards are pyramid structured - only the middle and top management get to see the rewards for being with the company for >10 years
Mid level hired professionals will drop out within 1-2 years time as unable to gel with culture

Advice to Senior Management

Encourage mid-level hires by understanding where they come from and the experiences they bring to the table.
Sack up and pay aggressively if the Gen Z are to be loyal to the company.

Pros

1. Open concept
2. A very Purpose orientated company

Cons

1. No Action Talk only from current management.
2. No in touch with the people on the floor, and in the 1st place they are the one to do the production and make money for you.
3. A very seif-centered Management.

Advice to Senior Management

Touch life of your people too.

Pros

- Very principle based
- Positive company image
- Very competitive environment, so you are energized to give your best
- Competent talents

Cons

- Director levels (whichever business unit you work for) are often confused of their own choices and end up blaming those who execute their decisions
- Not very competitive in their pay (yeah, it's not so bad, but it's not great compared to the work you have to do)
- Slow in decision making

Advice to Senior Management

There needs to be a commitment when a decision is made, and you must stick to it. Often times it is the ones who execute the decisions that often get burned for nothing, have to redo all the work and still swallow the bitter pills by working extra long hours without being compensated in our pay.

Pros

Learning is very good , since you get into senior positions very quickly.
Leadership is very strong and they are clear of the direction to take the company.

Cons

Leadership is not flexible about the needs of the employees. The company interest takes precedence over all else. Company is too much in silos.

Advice to Senior Management

Maximize the potential of every employee. Understand the changing needs of employees with families.continue to train employees on cutting edge concepts.

Pros

Really takes care of its people. Spends time to train and develop skills.

Cons

Work life balance is a challenge and it is a tough competitive environment.

Pros

1. It is a world of its own--- it is very organized and structured; things run effectively and efficiently.
2. It is a very open organization. Feedback is a way of life. You can directly give feedback, be it positive or negative, and nobody will take it against you.
3. It always aims to do the right thing. They are pretty straight forward on the rules. They try not to have grey areas.
4. It respects the key values and promotes it consistently.

Cons

1. Highly competitive environment. You are rated against your peers. You are just as good as your last performance.
2. Very bad work-life balance.

Advice to Senior Management

The culture of stretching the employees to the best of their abilities also has a downside--- you exhaust them easily.

Pros

Build a good foundation at P&G and your skills will be transferable, not to mention, sought after at most other organisations.

Cons

You might get lost within a large organisation. Its not everybody's cup of tea to deal with unnecessary questionable tasks.

Advice to Senior Management

Introduce 360 reviews for a fair assessment, this helps to avoid a bias judgement. More incentive schemes for cost centres.

Pros

P&G focus a lot of developing our competencies, competitive salary and compensation benefits

Cons

Pressure is unavoidable, working for meaningless project at times

Advice to Senior Management

Cross functional opportunity should be considered for capable individuals, rather than just grow within function.

Pros

1) The learning - they really do invest in training you and equipping you with skills.
2) The people - bloody competitive bunch of people who will never back down till they win. The calibre of people in the company is really good.

Cons

1) The compensation - is terrible. Sure it looks great at first glance, but when you look at the amount of workload, responsibility and expectation, we are extremely underpaid.
2) Meritocracy NOT - it's a wonderful marketing company, so good that some people spend most of their time marketing themselves very well and get ahead despite not delivering the business. Also, even though diversity is touted as an important factor, if you are a minority, you generally have it much harder trying to shine/get ahead.
3) Risk adverse / Slow to react - everything needs to be tried and tested and verified. Experimentation is the buzz word, sadly implementation is often not as budget gets cut and put on something that has shown to deliver results..instead of experimentation. Same for reacting to competition. By the time we decide what to do, it's already too late. And to thinking innovation/agility is a success driver.

Advice to Senior Management

I was once told that if you took away all the P&G assets but leave us our people, we will rebuild our company in 10yrs. Yet I have seen so many good people leave the company in the recent years that I have doubts if we can really rebuild if that happens.

Trust in your people - empower them and let them deliver the decade for you. Respect and treasure them. You hire the best, don't lose them because of lack of motivation/compensation.