BAT Benefits FAQ

Pros

Great benefits (pension and share scheme) Good work culture Great management team Working hard towards an inclusive culture

Cons

Base salary is below market rate Annual pay raises are not linked to inflation Bonus' are hard to predict in value Hard to gain promotion (can only move up when availability)

Advice to Management

Improve base pay and increase pay rises to at least inflation (rather than giving staff a real terms pay cut).

Pros

Good benefits package including vacation bonus,sports bonus,health insurance,yearly bonus

Cons

Big workload and a lot of constant pressure.

Pros

great benefits, great pay once you get some years under you. I was fortunate to have a great team.

Cons

last 3 years they handed out severance packages; expanded territories and disregarded employee input

Pros

Decent salary and non financial benefits.

Cons

Corporate political culture. You don’t need to know your work or work hard, you need to have good connections in order to succeed there. As the business itself doesn’t demand deep knowledge or discipline (at the end people need a good quality smoke at the good price and not fancy pack, new visual or new logo of the brand), hence marketing functions are really just about chitchat and connections, a lot of unnecessary meetings creating “visibility of work”, plenty of failed launches due to same approach. People are moved every couple of years, so they are not interested in creating something solid, they just need to show that they “worked” - launched something (be it a failed SKU or campaign that didn’t bring any new customers) in order to be moved further. Managers are not interested to grew new talents. No respect towards employees. No support for working mothers, in fact a lot of cases when women on maternity leave or that just returned from it were redundant. Poor work life balance. The list is endless, really.

Advice to Management

Stop reorganize the company every year. It doesn’t do good, people are not focus on work or customers, they just focus on surviving in constantly changing structure.

Pros

Great benefits and company car

Cons

Management are all drinking the purple cool-aid!!!! If you enjoy being micro-managed and work expectations all over the map then this is the company for you. Worst direct manager I have ever worked for. Everyone thinks the exact same but no one speaks up.

Advice to Management

STOP the micro-management!