I worked there for almost three years. I should have either worked there forever or not at all. - Process Engineer Procter & Gamble Employee Review

4.0
Dec 1, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company is extremely well organized. They pay well and offer lots of opportunities for advancement within the company. The social contract between the company and its employees is very strong in that the company will go to great expense to not lay off employees.

Cons

The entire system of hiring and developing people centers around loyalty. The profit sharing program is extremely back-end loaded, translating into a roughly 20% bonus after 20 years of service, and that is just for showing up to work. However, new employees are not even vested in the profit-sharing program until after 5 years of service. Since it is a promote-from-within company, most of the managers have worked at P&G for their entire career, so they have a very particular way of doing things and are not open to outside cultural influences. Further, since most managers intend to stay there indefinitely, there are few opportunities to get professional certifications and the like. Getting such certifications is actually sort of frowned upon within the company, since people then get the impression that you want to make yourself marketable to other employers.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jul 11, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

-Unfortunately this generation of VPs, SVPs Presidents, C-Suite and CEO are among the worst I've ever seen; soul draining culture and "frantic" versus thought-through strategies. Because P&G is up-or-out, unfortunately everyone who is at that level all operate the same: an obsession with work, high panic which ultimately leads to beating down on the organization to do more while not actually caring about the employees. There is an enormous mental health crisis in the Procter & Gamble walls right now that HR and leadership is just simply not looking to change because business results are more important to them -Career growth is a joke - 100% politics, 0% merit. Some of the most recent appointments within the company are very good examples of this specifically with multiple promotions to executive levels with questionable results and known emotionally abusive issues but are mentees of the CEO -Very weak compensation structure vs CPG peers (even though P&G does not think this). They claim cost of living in Cincinnati makes it competitive but if they did a true deep dive on total comp structure, P&G is abysmal after your first 2 years there

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