Pernod Ricard USA Reviews

Pros

Great work life balance and great benefits

Cons

Unclear career path. A bit longer than usual to get advancing on

Pros

Good work/life balance, friendly and warm culture for the most part (very few jerks), opportunity to work on great brands; high level of autonomy once you establish yourself, and fun happy hours and events (pre-pandemic).

Cons

Salaries are significantly under market and high performance is not recognized or rewarded. There is not an emphasis on developing and retaining talent and the leadership has a very traditional "this is just how it is" mindset. There has been a decent amount of turnover in Legal for the same reasons but management does not seem willing to address issues with compensation, morale, and growth potential. The legal culture could be more collaborative and less critical. Volume of work can be high and internal clients do not always respect legal function or fact that they work in a highly regulated industry. Much time is wasted pushing back on basic legal issues. Company can be very disorganized and lacks clear process, though leadership is attempting to change that. It's exciting to see more diversity in leadership and more focus on D&I but at times the public statements can feel performative - would love to see more internal change and for the company to truly walk the walk and train individual employees and hiring managers on D&I. Health care provider (Aetna) regularly denies claims in bad faith for things that clearly are covered and was terrible to deal with.

Pros

Flexibility in work environment, progressive CEO, support groups and large network of teammates across divisions, good competitive spirit and winning strategies.

Cons

Systems reinvented each year so big learning curve each time it changes, lots of over communication (ie forwarded email of a forwarded email with lots of instructions to read below) timelines for return on projects short and lots of fire drills, male dominated but taking actual steps toward more intersectional diversity within the company and even in C suite postions.