Altria reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(1,362 total reviews)
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Billy Gifford

70% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Altria has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,362 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Altria employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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1K reviews
2.0
May 4, 2015

Don't believe the tagline...

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Pros

Compensation is high, but not enough to make up for the culture. There are some really nice people working here, but I wouldn't call many of them smart.

Cons

Big company with a huge amount of bureaucracy - forget making an impact or even an independent decision. Senior Management is ten years behind on everything, which is ironic given how arrogant they are about their leadership style. Your career and your professional reputation can go from stellar to the gutter overnight - it all depends on who likes you.

2.0
Mar 7, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

-High entry level pay (salary started around 56k, at second year 59.5k) -Quality deferred profit sharing program -Flexible work schedule (you essentially build your own schedule) -Approximately 18 paid vacation days not including around 6 company holidays -Upper management is fairly in tune with how the sales force feels and is sympathetic to the amount of initiatives we have to deal with monthly, however, only minor changes have taken place. -Upper management are extremely personable, knowledgable, and mostly come from the sales force which is nice to see.

Cons

-Although you are a member of a team "unit" there is no feeling of teamwork or unity -You will do 95% of your work independently with no direct contact from team members, or managers (This may be great if you have held a job for several years and have mastered time management but for an entry level position there is little to no guidance other than what comes down from HQ). -Your manager will heavily dictate your success, which sounds obvious, but in theory one should be able to pay their own way based on how this system is structured. Because managers are constantly being promoted and shifted around it is difficult to build a relationship. -They bait you with talks about promotions but constantly change career advancement opportunities. -Company sells the idea of their high employee retention rate and small turnover percentages however in the past year they laid off 125 employees which created a 1984 type environment to work in. -You are essentially crushed with initiatives which is normal of a sales organization of this size with so many operating companies, however, everyone is measured on their ability to "sell in" new products which can be extremely easy in some areas and extremely difficult in others. There is no balancing tool in place to accurately assess an employee's ability to sell. Your territory can make or break you. -Their seem to be a lot of Unit Managers with their own agendas that put themselves and their personal success above the team's ability to grow and outperform.

2.0
Dec 17, 2025

Weakened Company

Recommend
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Pros

Benefits, tuition reimbursement, car, insurance, *decent* pay. They at least “fake” the whole culture and ID&E thing well— most companies don’t even do that.

Cons

Management sucks. They expect you to juggle a million different things while telling you they “understand there’s a lot on your plate right now,” all while continuing to scoop more on. VP says we’re salaried employees so EXPECT to work beyond 40hrs per week. No pay for drive time (if you live far from your territory), no pay or consideration for working hours to organize POS— you’re still expected to work 8 hours in field. They complain about the smallest of things SMs do, but upper management and account teams are so poorly led, half of them can’t rub two rocks together to form solutions. They all just “talk” the good corporate talk on teams calls.

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