Mostly poor experience - IT “Product” Manager Procter & Gamble Employee Review

2.0
8 July 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-People are incredibly smart and capable -Money is good, especially for the location -If you as a person fit the culture (are a Type A person who is very loyal to the company) you’ll love it

Cons

COMPANY CULTURE: As someone who’s worked other places, this is the worst culture I’ve ever seen. It’s a loud, vocal, incredibly Type A place to the point of being toxic. Further, speaking plain English isn’t a thing - you’re literally playing corporate buzzword bingo every day and there are so many acronyms that the company published a dictionary/translation guide. Finally, there is this incredibly odd “company man” culture where everyone thinks that P&G is the greatest place in the world, that we’re the most prestigious company ever, and that your only hope of having a successful career is to be here (i.e. P&G is superior to Google and McKinsey, why would you ever leave?). The “drinking the kool-aid” is over the top and the inflated sense of the company that people have is not based in reality. -LOCATION. It’s Ohio, there’s no escaping that. 100% remote isn’t a thing here, and it’s made clear that to advance you must be in Ohio. This is why most of their college recruiting is at Midwest schools: it’s tough to convince people who know what’s out there to give it up and come to Cincy. -JOB DUTIES: my job’s day-to-day looked nothing like what the job title suggests, what was written in the job description, or what was described during the interview process. Be prepared for a possible bait-and-switch scenario.

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Cons

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