Procter & Gamble reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(14,298 total reviews)
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Jon R. Moeller

83% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Procter & Gamble has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 14,298 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Procter & Gamble 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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1.0
Sep 22, 2021

Caste based company

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Pros

Working at P&G will prepare you to work in other companies. By forcing you to commit to the whims of your manager, as opposed to the goals of the organization, you learn to pivot quickly. If you are one of the “anointed” there is nothing you can do wrong: you can steal other peoples work and barely do any of your own and you’ll still succeed.

Cons

If you are not one of the “anointed” there is little you can do right. This is not a company based on meritocracy (they tell you this explicitly over and over again in their endless diversity indoctrination). The only thing that matters are your immutable genetic characteristics. The person who rose fastest during my time at P&G was among the most incompetent and unethical people I’ve ever worked with; this person would steal other peoples ideas, lie about the people working with and for them, and wholly plagiarize work performed by their direct reports.

2.0
Dec 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

P&G provides a nice salary with opportunities to really grow your salary provided you follow the P&G way. P&G has some good people who really look out for you and provide mentoring opportunities. P&G looks good on your resume for future employment.

Cons

Have to know how to play the P&G game to move up. Results are mostly based on how your 1 up manager views you and assesses your performance. At the plant level, plant managers seem to view you based off of how your 1 up manager and/or plant leadership views you. Also, not much opportunity to solve technical problems with creativity. Often times, you have to follow the P&G way to solve every single problem (which sometimes is overkill and wasteful). If there is any real engineering work to be done, contractors usually take care of it. Manufacturing engineers focus primarily on process reliability (compiling data, eliminating machine stops, etc.) without really diving in too technically (i.e. minimal design work). To top it off, managers working in the plant level are expected to work minimum 50-60 hours/week, so the P&G mentality can become draining (which is why I left).

1.0
Jun 29, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay and benefits, nice people. Pleasure to come to work most days. Enjoy making top notch products that everyone uses.

Cons

Long hours, performance management system does not improve employee performance. It creates backstabbing and CYA mentality. Better get in good with the boss.

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