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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1.0
Oct 27, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Having P&G on your resume makes you very marketable to other companies. There are some non traditional roles available for people with science backgrounds.

Cons

Short of having a Bachelors in Engineering you will be a second class citizen. The R&D system is truly flawed. People with bachelors or masters degrees in a scientific discipline come in 2 levels underneath those with bachelors degress in engineering. If you have a science background you will not come in as a manager (like your classmates in engineering will). All of the effort is put into developing engineers for leadership roles. People with science backgrounds are expected to be a pair of hands in the lab. You may luck up and get a manager who gives you the opportunity to do the type of work that the engineers get to do but expect to get paid $20-30K less for the same work. What they don't tell you when you are interviewing is that only a very small percentage of people with science backgrounds ever get the 2 promotions necessary to get them to the entry level position for an engineer. For the few who do, the average timing is 10 years. It is very common for a person with 15+ years with the company who came in with a bachelors/masters in science to be managed by someone with a bachelors in engineering who is right out of college. To add insult to injury, any degree that you obtain while working for P&G does not help you advance. The expectation is that the new degree will just enhance your abilities within your current role. Also, those coming in with a PhD in a scientific discipline will enter at the same level as a bachelors in engineering. (P&G loves their engineers!) On another note, you can also expect to spend your time imitating your competitors b/c the culture has gone away from taking the risks associated with being innovative and has instead gone to a copycat paradigm.

1.0
May 10, 2023

Backward & pretentious place

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Depending on your Business Unit and Director, there are great managers and teams but in minority.

Cons

If you enter, be prepared to meet lots of fake smiles and pretentious people. Managers who are out to steal credit and throw you under the bus. If things are great, you will never be acknowledged. If things goes wrong, the pointing finger game begins. Their '360' reviews are all fake as these folks would appoint friends to evaluate. Directors will gaslight and treat contractors, external parties, agencies with disrespect. If you are looking to enter, it would be best to check if your team has locals (not including PR or converts) or are all expats - it shows if your director has been hiring 'friends' or talents.

1.0
Jun 28, 2021

Terrible culture

Recommend
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Pros

Good pay and benefits because they know that's the only thing keeping you there.

Cons

I was hired as a “new manager” during COVID and really wanted to love it because it was my dream job out of college. Unfortunately, I realized quickly how awful this company was. They put SO much pressure on new managers to the point where they are overworked and basically working 3 jobs at once. The hours are terrible, too. You come in thinking you might have a 50-60 hour work week once in a while but they actually put pressure on you every week (even when you’re brand new) to work those hours (6am-4pm) because a lot of the leadership are hourly employees who get paid overtime when working 50-60 hour work weeks anyway. On top of that, they make you feel completely unappreciated and there is barely any real recognition. Giving your employees and umbrella or something because they are “2 years safe” is not the same as individually recognizing an individual for work really hard on a project or working late into the night trying to start up! Also, they make new managers feel completely disposable because they were constantly hiring new engineers out of college knowing others will quit so they didn’t care about you until 3 years in when they realized you weren’t going to quit. It’s an awful mentality and constantly hearing from operators and others that “oh I’m sure you probably found another job already” or “are you sure you REALLY want to stay here” 100% drives people to feel underappreciated and ultimately want to quit. I think pretty much everyone hated their job there which made people say things that they would never say in a good environment. They boast about how “competitive” they are but in reality, it’s just bad culture. Since they hire you from college, people have only known that terrible culture their whole career and don’t realize how bad it is. They should be bending over backwards to get people to stay since so many people have quit in the past few years and they are a plant in the middle of NOWHERE but sit there and think “well if one person quits it doesn’t matter because there are hundreds of other college students we can hire.” I also thought that since P&G was a “hire from within” company they would want their employees to pursue their interests in the company but instead they set you on one path for 4-5 years (or more if they don’t like you) even if it’s not what you want to do. I would never go back there, not even if they paid me 10x my salary and I am so glad I quit!

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