Procter & Gamble reviews

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.

Pretty much everything else was a con.... The culture is extremely reactive, very little preventative work done and when a problem takes place ITS EXTREMELY URGENT and you're expected to drop everything right then and there. Very poor work/life balance and non-existent boundaries, meaning that your cell phone will be your work phone and you can expect to be called at all hours and on your vacation. Lots of travel expected (to horrible locations in horrible states). All of that in exchange for working at what you expect to be a state of the art company with amazing benefits, neither of which are true. There's hardly any perks to working here; the technology, people, and systems are absolutely archaic. It felt like working in a 3rd world county or the 1960's a lot of the time. Lastly, there seems to be no middle ground in employee satisfaction, meaning that employees are either 1) completely miserable or 2) have a cult mindset where they believe P&G is better than anywhere else in the world despite never having worked elsewhere in their lives.