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    Diageo Reviews

    Updated 15 February 2019
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    Diageo CEO Ivan Menezes
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    Pros

    • "Celebrate life / good perks & work life balance" (in 100 reviews)

    • "Great company Great brands Great package" (in 131 reviews)

    Cons

    • "Work life balance difficult at times" (in 48 reviews)

    • "Process are too slow when decision making" (in 52 reviews)

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    1. Featured Review

      Helpful (1)

      "The perfect blend!"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      Unique in how the company and people care about the performance we deliver, the inclusion of all employees plus the impact on communities and society. Genuinely have freedom to determine the impact you want to have, the way you want to work, and to try out new ideas and build your career. Working with such iconic brands you feel privileged and excited every day to be holding the torch for their future. A globally connected company, that despite its size is only 30,000 people means it feels like a real community and somewhere that is both ambitious and incredibly fun to work at with people you care about.

      Cons

      It is good to see the business making changes in areas that are needed. Being less internally focused and more geared to customers and consumers will make sure we focus on the things that are fewer and most important, and remove some unnecessary complexity that has increased over time by being too inward looking. Also because it has been so internally driven for so long it can be hard to sometimes see that changes being made in the company are not only essential, they are being driven (often far harder!) in most other companies in order to stay competitive in this fast changing world. Need to keep doing more to bring the outside world in to keep perspective on what is truly important.

      Advice to Management

      Keep doing what makes this company great - investing in incredible brands, growing talented and diverse people and caring about our impact on communities.

      Diageo Response

      19 Nov 2018 – Social Media Team

      Hello there,

      What a fantastic review to read, its a delight to read that you're thoroughly enjoying your time at Diageo - your review sums up perfectly why this is such a great company to work... More

    2. "Fun, fast-paced, stretching and performance orientated"

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      Current Employee - Head of Talent in London, England
      Current Employee - Head of Talent in London, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Diageo full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Purpose led organisation with deep routed values and a leadership standard which everyone understands. Heritage and quality of products are amazing. Opportunity to make improvements and get things done! Inclusion and diversity are at the top of the agenda which is brilliant - I've worked in many other companies and I've never seen such an acute focus on this critical topic. People genuinely has passion for the business (for me this really makes a difference).

      Cons

      Similar to lots of large corporate organisations we have some longer administrative processes (so let's continue to simplify). It's great that we're a relational business however when you're new it can be harder to navigate the organisation to get things done quickly.

      Advice to Management

      Where possible lets keep simplifying our sometimes over-complicated processes thus empowering our people to make the difference. We're getting there; we just need to keep focus here.

      Diageo Response

      24 Jan 2019 – Social Media Team

      Hello, many thanks for your comments and for taking the time to give specific feedback around how we can improve - it is appreciated. Kate

    3. "Great company, some managers - not so great"

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      Former Employee - N/A in London, England
      Former Employee - N/A in London, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Diageo full-time

      Pros

      Great location, benefits, learning opportunities and onsite facilities. I met some wonderful people there

      Cons

      Unrealistic and unreasonable expectations of perfection for some staff and not others. This inconsistency can impact negatively on morale

      Lack of accountability especially when it comes to grievances and disciplinary action. How can the person accusing you of something be the same person to make the final decision?

      Advice to Management

      Review your disciplinary policy. Its biased and the decisions made there can be arbitrary and unfair. It seems no matter how robust any counter arguments are, the decision is already made and the presence of an ER person is just for show and not to ensure fairness.

    4. Helpful (1)

      "Workload"

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      Current Employee - Maintenance Business Leader in Alloa, Scotland
      Current Employee - Maintenance Business Leader in Alloa, Scotland
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Diageo full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Flexible working where required. Good pay and benefits including bonus and use of company car.

      Cons

      Huge amount of work. Workers are expected to take on duties of 2 or 3 people.

    5. "A truly amazing place to work!"

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      Current Employee - Finance Manager in London, England
      Current Employee - Finance Manager in London, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Diageo full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Amazing place to work! Amazing people, products and benefits.

      Cons

      Big mover - you need to shine to be noticed. Not that this is a bad thing.

      Diageo Response

      11 Feb 2019 – Social Media Team

      Hi there,

      Thanks for leaving a review, it's great to hear your feedback and we hope that your review next year will be just as positive.

      Thanks for your hard work
      Joshua.

    6. "Engineer"

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      Current Employee - Engineer
      Current Employee - Engineer

      I have been working at Diageo full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Company Benefits are very good

      Cons

      A lot of managers for everything

    7. "Great company"

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      Current Employee - Accountant
      Current Employee - Accountant
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Diageo full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Great company to work for, flexible conditions, open to new ideas and room for progression if willing to travel/relocate

      Cons

      Consistent productivity agendas resulting in removal of roles, though similar in every Company in the current climate

      Advice to Management

      Be more flexible with locations of roles

    8. "Worked there full time for 5 years"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Diageo full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Flexibility, people, benefits, fairly relaxed

      Cons

      Constant restructuring leading to uncertainty and low staff morale

      Advice to Management

      Long term plan rather than short term goals

    9. "Laboratory Technician"

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      Former Employee - Laboratory Technician in Aberdeen, Scotland
      Former Employee - Laboratory Technician in Aberdeen, Scotland
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Diageo full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Shares scheme, plenty of internal career opportunities

      Cons

      Boring job role, bad management, reluctant to change/improve even with regards to health and safety

      Advice to Management

      Hire senior staff that aren’t bullish or ignorant.

    10. "Menstrie Bond"

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      Current Employee - Forklift Operator in Glasgow, Scotland
      Current Employee - Forklift Operator in Glasgow, Scotland
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Diageo full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Good pension and salary ,full wages when absent with illness ,Good graduate programme bringing younger educated and civilised ,respectful.management into work place

      Cons

      No cons always try to look forward

      Advice to Management

      Graduate programme is good ,listen to employees input a bit more when new projects affect our every day working