Duracell Reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(180 total reviews)
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Thom Lachman

54% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Duracell has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 180 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Duracell employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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180 reviews
1.0
1 Feb 2025

DO NOT WORK HERE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES

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Pros

Extra super Salary 1 day a week in the office

Cons

DO NOT WORK HERE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES • Power obsessed incompentent General Manager • Multiple people with Tier 1 experience have either left or were forced out by the GM • The business lacks 0 form of governance & process, it’s own financial controller would constantly send me P&Ls that had incorrect numbers. Requested & built a new system but no support from the GM & financial controller who knew this would remove their ability to influence & control the numbers • The business has 0 culture, people come & go so quickly in the business, out of a team of 20, they are down to about 3 people who have a tenure longer than 2 years • GM has no understanding of the market dynamics & rules of engagement, multiple customers openly remark about their dislike for him • HR just sitting there as a passenger doing absolutely nothing to control a dictatoresque GM • The genuinely only benefit is base pay & additional super, however if you think you are getting a bonus forget about it. Despite growing double digits for the last 3 years, the GM is so out of touch, that he tells global the targets should be higher, so no bonuses have ever been paid Please take my advice and don’t work here, I hand on heart learned nothing from my time at Duracell, all I did was have to bring process & experience based off prior knowledge in the market. If I was a gambler, id say Duracell to exit the market within 2 years.

2.0
17 Feb 2024

Sadly in decline

Recommend
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Pros

- Hybrid/remote roles can offer good work life balance. - Well known brand with P&G heritage - Potential for at market level compensation if you know your value and negotiate right - Generous travel policy, business class if flight is international above 6 hours - Can be a good place to build relevant experience if you need to get a foot in the corporate world.

Cons

- Game of Thrones level politics, nepotism, and backstabbing among top executives. Lack of a value driven culture creates an environment where toxic behavior from top management is tolerated. Promotions and access to resources based on who you know and sharing ethnicity/language/background. - Dire business outlook, category in decline. No focus on acquisitions or brand extensions to growing categories. No meaningful product innovations in the eyes of consumers. Demand during Covid gave a temporary boost but impossible to drive long term growth by only cost cutting and increasing prices in a declining category. - CEO and some of the senior executives has a win at any cost to planet/consumer/employees mentality. No real values other than EBIT. No focus on sustainability, DEI or winning by doing good. Short term focus to maximize bonus payments before retirement. - Internal rank/salary bands geared to squeeze out maximum compensation at the very top level and minimize meaningful promotions and salary development for new hires, entry and mid-level. After the transition from P&G, HR changed salary bands from 9 levels to 17 levels, but the new levels were primarily added at the top. This allowed top level long term insiders with right connections to maximize their promotions and compensation, and minimize meaningful promotions and compensation for mid and entry level. Making it very difficult / impossible for new or recent hires to grow their careers long term at Duracell. Completely different from Duracell under P&G, when there was a strong focus to recruit and develop high performing entry and mid-level talent. - Frequent non-strategic layoffs and firings done in the shadows, affecting full organization from top executives to factories. Culture of fear across all levels.

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