Anheuser-Busch InBev reviews

- There is no work/life balance. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. This is not a 9-5 job. You are expected to work late. An inability to do so will see you having a very short time with the company. - They likely are talking to you about the AMAZING bonus structure that EVERYONE gets! 30% 40% 50%+ of your salary! Wow! Yeah, this doesn't happen. Even if you hit and exceed all of your targets, you are at the will and behest of global and local metrics that you have nothing to do with. Bud Light not selling well? Looks like your bonus may be cut by 70%. Not hitting our sales targets for the region? Good luck getting 20% of your expected bonus, if anything at all. - Senior management are not promoted based on leadership skills, instead, they are placed in positions of power on such factors as 'fits the role culturally' (this is code for Brazilian or from Beglium or used to work in the Global office) or 'works late'. (Funny, because my title is in senior management, I suppose this is self depreciating?) I find myself daily asking myself how people I work with can be promoted to where they are without having any inkling as to how to lead teams. Then I quickly remember they are (with one exception) either GMTs or are not from the U.S. - If you are in a role for more than 2 years, you should probably start looking for another job outside the company before they come for your job and take it away from you entirely. - There is a consistent, cannot be missed, and unequivocal pattern of age discrimination going on currently within the culture that people consistently only whisper about. Out with the old whenever and however possible, and in with the new - if you are someone in your 20s looking to take on roles that someone has been doing for 20+ years and like the challenge of stepping in without any guidance and enjoy being expected to make positive strides in the role within 2-3 months (or else face questions from senior management) this place is PERFECT for you! - I cannot make this more clear - you are NEVER off the clock. Ever. You are expected, and it is the norm, to respond to e-mail or issues when they pop up. Example: You are expected to handle a 2 AM issue with China and attend a meeting at 7 AM the same day where needed and whenever and however necessary. This is not optional. This is expected. If you can't handle this, go elsewhere. - Huge, huge amounts of turnover, especially lately, throughout 2017. We are almost at death spiral type levels - one person leaves, not backfilled, everyone else has to pick up the slack. Another person leaves, same thing happens, and so forth and so on. Loss of expertise follows, work not getting done as well as before, everyone else suffers - you get the picture.

Management at A-B is sad. Leadership brags about world class training and taking ownership but it's just a lie that they feed you from day 1. Culture here is toxic, everyone looks miserable most mornings. 10+ years at this company wreaks havoc on the work ethic and personality of managers. Noticed a few patterns throughout A-B's middle management. They'd rather hire employees that are less educated and sometimes slower learners. They desire workers that don't want to move up too fast, and that don't expect much in the way of promotions or bonuses. A-B leadership knows that they can underpay, and keep a mediocre employee for longer--a person that isn't very intelligent won't understand that their position could end at anytime as A-B "trims the fat" with new technology. Leadership wants oblivious and cheap employees that won't leave the company before they're ready to let them go. Management is known to fire some of their best senior analysts & even the most promising entry level employees to save money and to keep control of lower level employees. Managers across the board are: Unable to motivate their team. Lack vision for the future. Limited diversity. Threatened by new talent because of a constant fear for job cuts. Bad work environment for an entrepreneur or innovator. If you want to be underpaid, and get mentored by D-list management that were scraped from bottom of the barrel at other companies then work here. If you are comfortable with the fact that A-B will eventually fire you and take away all benefits--go for it!