Procter & Gamble reviews

Starting pay is $110K for this level which is less than average. The company is not at all diverse... the brand teams are all of the same ethnic group or socioeconomic status. They have their 'diversity hires' to have a mix, but I felt extremely out of place as a POC.

Toxic work culture where management keeps demanding more with less - fewer resources, less support/empathy, reduced coaching/guidance from managers etc. Everything is urgent and important with zero prioritisation. Managers talk about the 80:20 rule but fixate on the 20 from their ivory towers. Work is cascaded directly to the band 1/2 managers with most band 3s and above simply exercising their jaw muscles because they don't have technical expertise or knowledge of processes. Promotions and recognition can be entirely de-coupled from performance. Sycophancy or simply coming from the same community/state as your one-up manager can help shorten the path to promotion. Failures are not seen as opportunities for improvement, what ensues is a frenzy of finger pointing so people are fearful of even admitting to making mistakes which hampers the process of issue resolution and the implementation of long-term solutions. Needless to say, there isn't a culture of innovation. Current leadership do not role model the values of the company, I don't see an improvement to the work environment in the short term.