Procter & Gamble reviews

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.

Culture - varies widely by org unit, so be careful about which one you recruit into. My unit is particularly terrible, with managers gossiping, people taking each others' work without giving credit, and people working around the clock for no good reason to make more,,,soap? Management - failure to take responsibility when things go poorly and blaming direct reports; also will take credit when things go well and then give no credit to reports Work/life balance - people send emails at 11pm, 4am etc. and then will subtly brag about it at work Autonomy - you will have absolutely no autonomy in decision making, even if you are the subject matter expert Hierarchy - easily the most hierarchy I have ever seen, with layers and layers of managers that do nothing but compete for attention. They will also gaslight you by telling you it is a very flat organization