Pros
1. The company provides great training and has great systems in place! 2. The benefits are great but the pay is average. 3. The colleagues are great but can't say the same about the managers. 4. The multifunction spirit exists in most brands.
Cons
1. The company is clueless on how to manage experience hires. There is no career path for experienced people. I saw a total of 6 experienced hires exit the company within <6 months of their hire. <5% of experienced hires stay on more than 2 years. 2. The company's senior management is full of baby boomers who are more interested in schmoozing and socializing than producing good work. The multifunction team is always played for a choice i.e. either you schmooze and get promoted or you do great work and you get kicked out. Doing good work doesn't equate to getting promoted and it is mutually exclusive. I see great people leave every year of my career and sloppy workers getting promoted. 3. The company is inbred (pardon my pun!) i.e. there is no culture if you are there long enough and you just stick around schmoozing you can get to the top. It's not about talent. 4. The company is extremely weak at digital and adapting to new business models. I expect the company will perish to e-commerce companies just the way IBM is in 10 years time. 5. The brand management function at least in APAC has lost its swagger. If I were to join a company as a fresher it wouldn't be P&G, I would rather go for FB, e-commerce companies than join P&G because the skill sets I learn here are not making me any more marketable. 6. The company still is practicing (as of Jul 2016) a forced ranking curve. It says it is not but that's obviously not true. (I guess the company is exempt from holding itself up against PVP's) 7. Brand management is treated as gods and other functions are often treated as workers. Beware of this if you are joining this company! 8. There is a lot of citizenship pooling. For example - Philippine nationals promoting their own, Chinese nationals promoting their own people and so on. The other nationalities lose out in this race.