Pros
- Hybrid/remote roles can offer good work life balance. - Well known brand with P&G heritage - Potential for at market level compensation if you know your value and negotiate right - Generous travel policy, business class if flight is international above 6 hours - Can be a good place to build relevant experience if you need to get a foot in the corporate world.
Cons
- Game of Thrones level politics, nepotism, and backstabbing among top executives. Lack of a value driven culture creates an environment where toxic behavior from top management is tolerated. Promotions and access to resources based on who you know and sharing ethnicity/language/background. - Dire business outlook, category in decline. No focus on acquisitions or brand extensions to growing categories. No meaningful product innovations in the eyes of consumers. Demand during Covid gave a temporary boost but impossible to drive long term growth by only cost cutting and increasing prices in a declining category. - CEO and some of the senior executives has a win at any cost to planet/consumer/employees mentality. No real values other than EBIT. No focus on sustainability, DEI or winning by doing good. Short term focus to maximize bonus payments before retirement. - Internal rank/salary bands geared to squeeze out maximum compensation at the very top level and minimize meaningful promotions and salary development for new hires, entry and mid-level. After the transition from P&G, HR changed salary bands from 9 levels to 17 levels, but the new levels were primarily added at the top. This allowed top level long term insiders with right connections to maximize their promotions and compensation, and minimize meaningful promotions and compensation for mid and entry level. Making it very difficult / impossible for new or recent hires to grow their careers long term at Duracell. Completely different from Duracell under P&G, when there was a strong focus to recruit and develop high performing entry and mid-level talent. - Frequent non-strategic layoffs and firings done in the shadows, affecting full organization from top executives to factories. Culture of fear across all levels.
