Good company but sometimes you'll have to work with surprisingly incompetent senior people - Anonymous employee BAT Employee Review

4.0
Sep 20, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very good compensation Good career advancement Not too intense workload

Cons

Not that easy to find a truly inspiring or great leaders to learn from. There are, but not a lot. There's a surprising number of highly paid, mediocre people at high levels. Doing the right thing for the business and/or for the people is generally less of a priority for the majority of senior managers, rather their objective is often how to earn points with the power that be, leading to some quite interestingly irrational collective behaviors (but serve the individuals). The general priority is not to get things done, but not to offend anyone, so there's an excessive amount energy being devoted to internal stakeholder management.

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Cons

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1.0
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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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