Good learning experience - Senior Purchasing Manager Procter & Gamble Employee Review

3.0
10 June 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You learn a lot by interacting with top profesional and being exposed to various business challenges, geographies, cultures. You have multiple opportunities to grow in career, does good to your CV.

Cons

Compensation package is not among the best, you work like crazy. Huge internal complexity, 80% of your time you spend in internal work and building x pages useless documents for some y people to see and comment on. Simple common sense decisions are not simple here. Though promotion opportunities exist they are not always fare and they are subjective and driven by politics. People working on upper management are often favored and that's how you end up with top management having no leadership or common sense people skills. As a result you have top talents getting frustrated and leaving the company. As a rule, positioning and presenting counts more than the actual results.

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5.0
20 June 2026
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Pros

Great perks with products and discounts

Cons

Long hours and rotating shifts

3.0
19 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Many intelligent people who are experts in their fields who are willing to help and provide advice (if they have time). Decent benefits and pay.

Cons

I mentioned time because many people are stretched and overworked. Work life balance is pretty bad and shows no signs of improvement. A lot of this can be attributed to near useless management. Every project is treated as absolute maximum priority but can still be dropped at a moment's notice. Work processes are horribly cumbersome and slow. Even small changes require many approvals but there are endless demands to "move faster".

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