Pros
Great, great brands - widely admired and recognized by the entire world Constant flow of projects and changes makes it exciting and challenging for anyone. Although you do need to manage your own career, there are some many great ways to get fantastic experience. You do well at this CPG, I think you can succeed anywhere. Great benefits - and an open bar with weekly happy hour and food in all office locations Bonus packages seem to deliver every year due to consistently strong company performance Flexibility - working from home is often accepted
Cons
Prioritization is difficult; there are often so many projects/changes taking place all the time - it can be draining and demoralizing when so many things are considered top priority. Limited resources to manage the above across all functions - which makes it difficult to get things done People are spread out geographically - telecons are the way most of us get things done, which makes it hard to build relationships and influence results. Because everyone is so busy, it can be hard to plan and get results in meetings even for the most organized. Tardiness to meetings is too widely accepted (in my opinion) - but that's understandble when you are often double and triple booked, back-to-back all day long. Ambiguous, unstructured culture - i.e. not process-oriented (it's a Brand company) - which is only a con for those coming from the GE six-sigma type corporate environment