Pros
Once a great company, there is still something left of the pre acquisition culture. You get to work with best in class talent, though many seem to be exiting or pursuing other opportunities.
Cons
In the last year, work life balance has become nonexistent. It feels like leaders within the department wear their after-hours and weekends in the office as a badge of honor, creating unhealthy and unsustainable pressure on teams from the top down. The post acquisition Tug-of-War for control between RAI and BAT has created a situation where it seems to me that many feel strained to perform their roles. It feels as the environment has taken its most passioned organizational advocates and exhausted them into a state of complete ambivalence. To combat negative reviews, it seems to me that H.R. focuses more on asking employees to promote positive reviews on LinkedIn and Glassdoor than having frank conversations about the cultural and business shifts that have occurred since the acquisition.
