Good company to work for overall but a struggle for top performers who expect faster paced change and job acceleration
Pros
- nice culture - good benefits - ample vacation time (London based employee) - strong family values - open door to management - opportunity to distinguish yourself and make an impact if you're willing to work hard, drive change and produce creative solutions to problems
Cons
- not great at promoting top performers (they seem to subject everyone to the same 2 year promotion process regardless of how good they are). - legacy of A* performers leaving because change is too slow / frustrating. in turn C players tend to stick around and get promoted by default. - siloed environment - not a lot of true cross functional collaboration - marketing is only just becoming more consumer oriented. professionals tend to be uncreative and unhelpful and supporting anything outside of their core agenda. - product has to do SJ's bidding. very little regional control or resource to support new ideas that might move the needle. - slow to get anything done