Good on your resume, but don't plan on sticking around if you want to move up quickly - Band I IDS Systems Analyst Procter & Gamble Employee Review

4.0
Nov 21, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

- Excellent culture. Good emphasis on ethics and consumer focus. - Good work / life balance encouraged by the organization - Other companies love to see P&G on your resume, it will definitely be a good thing. - Good corporate trainings, specially if this is your first job, P&G will invest in developing you. - Stable work environment, if you work for P&G you really have to put on a good effort to get laid off.

Cons

- Slow progress on your career, as a young professional in my 20's this was a bit of a drag. They will not tell you this but the minimum standard for getting to band 1 is 2 years. Promote from within means you play by their rules and time schemes. - P&G Costa Rica has low salaries for IT employees. This was a problem since I joined on day 1, and I worked for 4 years. Their "IDS" function as they call it is not being paid competitively, me and my friends left one by one for higher paying jobs outside. They say they pay competitively but I was being paid less than the average salaries of my college graduation classmates. - In some areas (non-IT), politics plays a large role in who gets promoted instead of who really is performing.

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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

training can be a lot, you have about 1-2hr presentations biweekly where you get tested on different aspects of the plant, like steam system, water system, utilities etc, training can last up to 6 months paid once a month, irregular times on call, may have to work weekends depending on machines work long shifts, sometimes up to 16 hours depending on how machines run, expected to be at work by 6am for safety meetings, 5am sometimes depending on the site you work at, expected to stay if machines run poorly can be demanding- most entry level managers are fresh out of college and expected to train and manage individuals who have worked at the company for decades not very easy to change departments, takes a couple of years no matching 401k, they have their own profit sharing thing, if you quit before 3-4 years at the company, you lose the money

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