Description As one of Indonesia's largest cigarette makers, PT Gudang Garam deals in droves of cloves to make fragrant clove cigarettes, called kreteks. Founded in 1958 by the Wonowidjojo family, Gudang Garam blends cloves with tobacco to produce more than 70 billion cigarettes annually. The company owns a 514-acre tobacco complex on eastern Java that includes machine-made and hand-rolled cigarette operations. Gudang Garam is affiliated with other firms involved in banking, investing, and polyester film production. The company's dominance in Indonesia is under fire from Philip Morris International, which acquired rival PT Hanjaya Mandala Sampoerna in 2005. Suryaduta Investama owns about 67% of Gudang Garam.
Gudang Garam has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 46 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Gudang Garam employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).
Overall, 80% of employees would recommend working at Gudang Garam to a friend. This is based on 46 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
71% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Gudang Garam as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Gudang Garam.