Echo Chamber! - Employee BAT Employee Review

2.0
May 27, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fast paced so you have to do a lot in the 24 hours of a day which pushes your limit. PowerPoint, PowerPoint, PowerPoint. All PPT slides are prepared like a magazine ready for publication so you learn to shade, color, size the fonts and shapes for optimal illustration. Leaders are usually those who have been in the company for a very long time so they know each other like family. Get on their good side and you'll easily get promoted left, right, center, across continents etc.

Cons

High attrition and practices layoffs regularly in large batches. If you join mid career from external companies, you'll never get a fair chance against those who exist in the system for years, especially Global Graduates who are given special treatment from the day they graduate. This is a big MNC that's an echo chamber. Everyone ensures to use the same words or vocabs that a leader started using and soon a group of leaders start using the word to form some sort of bonding although deep down they do not necessarily agree. Smoking and vaping in the office are common practices although the policy says no. So be warned.

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5.0
Oct 2, 2025
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Pros

- Complete autonomy with schedule which provides for a nice balance between work and personal life - Impact people who are trying to grow their careers - Company car and free* gas is pretty nice

Cons

- Autonomy & freedom does leave time where you have to be self-motivated to keep going and push forward

2.0
May 11, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Very strong compensation package, lots of very nice genuine people on the Reynolds US side

Cons

Toxic, politically charged environment, cliques of people each trying to place their own people in roles. A singular mis-trust and dislike of "outside" people who are brought in to move the company forward but the existing people who have worked there for years and years are all trying to protect and sustain their own roles and their own cliques. All show and pretty presentations but no meaningful, meaty strategy

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