Amazing Company, Amazing people, Amazing culture. - Human Resources Manager BAT Employee Review

5.0
Sep 25, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

BAT is an amazing company to work for, for a whole host of reasons! - It is by far my favorite career-move to date! . . . - Amazing culture - people are friendly, engaging, outgoing, and enjoy their work. - Amazing opportunity in terms of personal growth - offices all over the world, exciting new programmes / ventures / functions constantly arising! - Senior Management are carefully selected and excellent leaders / mentors almost all of the time - In terms of benefits - the company clearly has an interest in their employees wellbeing, and goes out of there way to look after people - The actual Office Locations are amazing in whatever city you visit! (especially the London Headquarters) - It is an exciting / engaging place to work, and despite being a tobacco company, is also one of the most caring, ethical and socially responsible companies that I have ever come across!

Cons

- It obviously has a small amount of social-stigma that the minority of people associate with a Tobacco company, however when educated on the amount of charitable / CSR work that we carry out, along with the fact that as an organisation we are leading the way in next-generation products and bringing to market alternative non-tobacco products to expand consumers choices (like being the first/only company to have actual government backing for our alternative non-tobacco products to be used in the medical profession) - people soon realise that many of the assumptions of what a company like ours is/does are quite innaccurate! . . .

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5.0
Oct 2, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Complete autonomy with schedule which provides for a nice balance between work and personal life - Impact people who are trying to grow their careers - Company car and free* gas is pretty nice

Cons

- Autonomy & freedom does leave time where you have to be self-motivated to keep going and push forward

1.0
Mar 11, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

401k, Good deal of vacation time.

Cons

I truly miss working for RJReynolds! Even though its a very large company it still had that small close knit company feel. Now that BAT has taken over it is absolutely MISERABLE working here now. The plant has not shut down on a weekend since they took over and doesn't look like it will anymore as long as BAT is in control. All this company cares about is production and getting tobacco out the door. Employees get promoted to positions they no experience in and have no business at all in working in the positions. The moral is the worst I have ever seen it, you can look at coworkers faces and tell they aren't happy working here anymore. The production employees are miserable due to this plant never shutting down and always running. Work/life balance is very bad. BAT has zero care for American holidays, they wont think twice to "voluntell" employees they need to work on the holiday. Employees are scared to speak up and say anything. Management is all yes people and will not stand up for their employees. I have watched everything get progressively worse and worse as BAT continues running this company. This used to be a company that people enjoyed working until retirement and now its a company that works the employees into the ground.

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