Procter & Gamble reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(14,287 total reviews)
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Jon R. Moeller

84% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Procter & Gamble has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 14,287 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Procter & Gamble employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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5.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

great name to have on your resume, industry makes for great job stability in an uncertain economy, the people are almost uniformly of an incredibly high caliber, lots of opportunities to learn from others' experiences on other brands, people are always willing to help and bring a lot of enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity to their work

Cons

its a very big organization, no matter how special you are--you won't likely me considered special here, there is a lot of competition for the best spots, sometimes the large size of the org and the data focused continual testing / measuring / benchmarking constrains the company's ability to execute quickly

4.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

P&G is a company that places a lot of emphasis on people development. There is a large focus on training-professional and personal, developing leaders, good managers. The company has some of the nicest people working there, maybe because of its Midwest location - this is sometimes good/sometimes bad. The review process is very thorough and a lot of it is focused on your personal skills. There is a lot of focus on work-life balance, with people having the opportunity to work from home/part-time or bring their kids into work if need be. P&G has plenty of people who have worked there for 10+ years. Benefits are great, although there is no company store in Cincinnati. But P&G does send every employee a very large box of P&G products during the holidaytime. These products just happen to be the ones the company has a hard time getting off the shelves in stores! Having the P&G name on your resume is golden. The P&G reputation is great not only in the consumer products industry, but in any industry.

Cons

Middle management is overly large, with many of them just sitting at their desks doing nothing. This may be because the tasks given to employees are very specific. The pace of worklife here is slow and fairly boring, with many hours spent surfing the web because of the lack of work. Promotions seem to based on how long you have worked at the company/connections at the company, rather than actual work. This being a very large company, it has a 'large company culture' with your share of politics and getting "buy-in" from 20 or so other people to make one decision.

4.0
Jun 3, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. P&G is a great place to train to be a general manager. You will learn how to run a business. 2. P&G is getting back to valuing excellence in marketing, and not just excellence in business results. One can now have a career as a brilliant marketer and not just as a brilliant manager. 3. P&G is so big that there are practically endless opportunities to learn new things whether it is different categories, different geographies, different roles, different types of marketing (consumer, retail, corporate, brand etc.) 4. P&G is ethical - I really do sleep well at nights because I know we do think of our consumers, our shareholders and our partners. We speak and act with respect.

Cons

1. Only people who are "golden" really have any chance of moving up in the company. And these golden children usually ride the coattails of their boss. Everyone is pretty darn smart at P&G so style and personality seem to be what decides who gets promoted. We need another boom like the internet to deal with stagnation. 2. Cincinnati. If you don't have allergies before you come here, you will. The city is a big city that acts very small (and not in a good way). There is no mountain, no lake, no ocean, no forest. The closest decent city is Chicago.

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