Brown-Forman Employee Reviews about "brown forman"

Pros

I couldn't have asked for a better experience during my Winter break internship at Brown Forman. My supervisors were extremely involved throughout my process of learning about the company and gave me an amazing, challenging array of projects to work on. I learned so much and I am so thankful for the opportunity I had.

Cons

Cons: None that I encountered! Awesome company.

Pros

I have nothing good to say about this company. Even the Scotches are sub-par.

Cons

Brown Forman Australia is fake - fake experiences - fake people - fake management - fake empathy - fake care. Brown-Forman Australian is political, backstabbing, and toxic. So much so that any constructive feedback you have must be carefully constructed because the moment you say something HR Leadership doesn't like, you're added to their blacklist. I can recall one HR Leader describing events that took play over 5 years ago and they're waiting for an opportunity to move that person out. HR at Brown-Forman is toxic. HR Leaderships approach is 'it's you, not me' sets the tone and it feels like you're walking on eggshells. I can recall HR Leadership telling staff that low (and continually declining engagement results) is their fault, not managements. I have never worked in an environment as political, as cold, as backstabbing, as disingenuous, as Brown Forman, and nor have a seen a HR team behave in a way that goes against every core value you could have as a human being. I wish I could say that my experience was a once off, but it's not. I genuinely believe that Brown Forman was once a great company; however, they have lost their way and tolerate toxic leaders who purposely go out of their way to ensure they create awful experiences for employees - these collective experiences of Brown-Forman Australia are a black, permanent, stain.

Pros

Salary, Benefits ++, opportunity, work life balance, team atmosphere, very diverse and accepting, great culture & extremely laid back environment, holidays, work related outings and activities, volunteer opportunities during work hours, education assistance 100% ++ & grad school 100%++, mentor program, employee cafeteria and 5 star restaurant on campus, product promotion allowance for all Brown Forman products ++, incentive program, health incentive program, partner benefits, adoption assistance, maternal & paternal leave paid 100%,

Cons

People rarely leave and open opportunities aren't available very often which shows this is a great place to work.

Pros

None really now that I’m thinking of it one year after I left

Cons

Harassment culture where top management supports harassing managers and internal investigations include nothing but interview with a friend of harassing manager who contributed in this behavior in the past. Chief Accounting Officer at Brown Forman is a fraud, and there is no reason to think that CEO and CFO don’t know about it as well. Run away!

Pros

BF has a great culture. You hear that from everyone that works here, and I'll admit, it creeped me out for the first few months because you keep thinking, 'Is everyone this nice and compassionate?' The answer is a resounding 'YES!' I feel more connected to the community and love all of the volunteer opportunities we are presented here. Participating in the PRIDE festival and having such a large presence is something I would have never dreamed that an employer would promote. It's a great feeling to be supported no matter who you are and where you came from. Pay seems to be very fair compared to other places. Most people here work to live and not the other way around. Relationship building is a huge part of Brown Forman. I've met people and learned about all aspects of business and departments that I may never directly work with. Seeing what other groups are doing is all about getting you out of your bubble and learning as much as you want about the business here. I work in Global Production and could easily keep to myself but making connections throughout the organization has really helped me see a bigger picture and objectives of Brown Forman.

Cons

I want to preface the cons with saying that even the worst day at Brown Forman are 10x better than most people's every day job. Cons exist everywhere and there is always room for improvement in any organization. Cons: -grey areas in career paths, not a clear structure -hard to get buy-in from middle managment for non-direct business tasks (ie particpating in all the extracurricular/ value added programs BF offers to employees) -always striving to do more work with less headcount

Pros

1. good policies engraved on the books and are followed to certain extent too 2. Work force is very limited, may be it depends on place to place (less politics) 3. 5 days job which is very much acceptable 4. Company understands personal issues and support too in personal situations 5. Have competitive variety of brands to be proud of, with and authentic story 6. good number of total leaves in a year are given to employees 7. Lot of formats to track everything 8. nice office to work at with an acceptable average culture 9. company works on a long term strategy 10. Sales conventions happens twice a year which makes people from different parts of the world to meet and interact with each other 11. performance review happens twice a year which gives employee an opportunity to improve / enhance himself/herself 12. good reward system known as "Spirit of Excellence Award" 13. There is an anonymous helpline numbers where grievances can be shared / reported (grievance policies are good)

Cons

1. Average Salary 2. Very Less Budgets to stay competitive in the market 3. Very less opportunities for promotion 4. manager are partial, think about themselves first (depends on place to place) 5. Very Less marketing Innovations 6. Deadlines are very rarely followed 7. working culture in my country is not very good 8. Managers do not open themselves, rather keep their team mates in dark light. 9. managers take decisions on their own and force the targets in their team without any discussions 10. People go on a leave for 1 month (which i have never seen in any company) and especially leadership team 11. Sales & Marketing is not one department (it should be one team) 12. International transfers of employees does not even exist 13. lot of struggle is there to uplift the brand in the market and maintain consistency of depletion in sales 14. lot of things are outsourced (which is not good at all) 15. delay a lot in making payments for clienteles / customers 16. Area of opportunities are very less 17. company makes a plan not to grow employees but makes plans on how to keep employees for a longer time 18. too many forms and formats but very less followed properly 19. reviews are not done properly 20. Brown Forman behaviors are not followed properly especially by Leadership team at regional levels 21. not investing good in emerging economy 22. inductions and orientations are not happening properly, people are working for years without that 23. Managers (especially leaders) do not care about the time of employee in office. very often a lot of time is wasted without doing anything fruitful 24. cost saving policies are not appropriate 25. grievances are not taken positively if leaders come to know that their team members have reported something.

Pros

Brown Forman has a great company culture. The internship program is really what you make it. You can learn a lot if you apply yourself.

Cons

It has a very large internship program, so you could easily feel like another number. Some hiring managers aren't on site so interns get stuck doing nothing for 8 weeks.

Pros

There are brilliant people and great brands

Cons

7 years ago when I joined the company it had such a people oriented strategy and culture. The past 2 years it has changed dramatically. In Europe, management with very strict and hierarchical style has been being promoted, very far away of what Brown Forman Values and Behaviors speak of. It's a big disappointment to see that the company has become an ordinary, below the average company that loses its talents. On top of that, EU Leadership is never changing and only focused on accomplishing their own goals, no matter what. If HR has some diversity objective that year, it would be pushed even if it doesn't feed the culture in a positive way. Also, the company has very low packages, not competitive salaries at all. And, local management has no space to move or take initiative and make decisions.