Great place to develop skillsets, leadership and management - Anonymous employee BAT Employee Review

4.0
19 Jan 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Great culture, treats people well. Young managers are given opportunity to grow and lead. Fantastic planning process. Highly structured. People work together as a team. Expectations and KPI are spelled out clearly way before the new financial year comes. Coaching culture at all level. Process driven. Strategy is clear and most of the time they work. Great place to learn for fresh graduates. Good compensation and benefits. Politics is minimal.

Cons

- too process driven and managers are bogged down by processes, systems and endless presentation - Marketers are not exposed to ATL and other marketing touchpoints that are in trend and relevant to the market. - Highly paid and hard to look for jobs - Work-life balance is compromised sometimes - It is tobacco industry, challenging and industry landscape can change drastically overnight due to government's initiative to curb smoking. - Industry is highly restricted. Needs lots of creative brain juice to find ways reaching out to consumers.

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5.0
2 Oct 2025
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Pros

- Complete autonomy with schedule which provides for a nice balance between work and personal life - Impact people who are trying to grow their careers - Company car and free* gas is pretty nice

Cons

- Autonomy & freedom does leave time where you have to be self-motivated to keep going and push forward

2.0
11 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Very strong compensation package, lots of very nice genuine people on the Reynolds US side

Cons

Toxic, politically charged environment, cliques of people each trying to place their own people in roles. A singular mis-trust and dislike of "outside" people who are brought in to move the company forward but the existing people who have worked there for years and years are all trying to protect and sustain their own roles and their own cliques. All show and pretty presentations but no meaningful, meaty strategy

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