Procter & Gamble reviews

- Best Marketing training in the world - Amazing, very smart people - Driven to improve - Clear strategies, structures, and frameworks to inform doing marketing work for the rest of your career

Despite being a huge company, you have the opportunity to work with highly driven people all the time, regardless of the context or project. It seems that everyone wants to push the company forward, all the while doing it as responsibly as possible. It's highly inspiring. If you pass the highly selective interviews, it means in 99% of the cases that you will fit perfectly at P&G. Almost everybody is driven, interesting, and could be your friend. They recruit a personality more than they recruit for skills, the reason being that they want you to spend your entire career here. Despite being a huge global company, it does not feel like there is a very strict hierarchy. You are exposed to very senior management very early on, and you will be encouraged to speak up to them in meeting to expose your ideas. Career planning is done early on, and is based on your personal interests after discussing with your manager. The goal is for you to growth within the organization. Expect to change roles/location every 2-3 years, have loads of training based on your interests (external e.g. Google/Microsoft.. or internal), network internally a lot etc.. Since P&G wants you to grow within the organization, they make it possible to change roles/location often (~every 2-3 years), you can even do wild changes (e.g. switch from IT to brand management) if you wish so, and you aligned your career plan. All around great career opportunity, and you will not get bored. The compensation package on a local contract is usually very competitive by design. P&G benchmarks the industry salaries every couple of years, and aims at paying in the top 20%, to attract the best people. Aside from the salary, the benefits are numerous : great offices, canteen, great and young colleagues that'll grow to become your friends, stock-based compensation contribution from the role of Manager etc.. This is originally a marketing company, and as an engineer joining the EMEA HQ, it-s great to be exposed to such an extensive knowledge base among your peers. Most people come from the best business schools across Europe, and you can easily ask someone from senior management for a coffee to learn more about what they do (in fact, doing this is almost expected of you). They will be very keen on explaining their work/P&G business. Overall P&G built the right management culture with little to no-micromanagement ( you have loads of freedom and autonomy to drive your projects), and an attractive compensation scheme and environment, which in turns attract the greatest, most skilled and driven people. I think P&G is uniquely positioned to tackle the challenges ahead. Even more so after having worked and talked with people that used to work for the wider or for the direct competition. It is one of the very best company globally to join as a fresh graduate, speaking from experience. And 95% of the hires join as fresh graduates, therefore you'll never be alone, and you are joining a company full of young people!