Diageo reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(3,466 total reviews)
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84% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Diageo has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 3,466 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Diageo employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Aug 10, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

- Great Benefits and good pay - Company is cash flush so you also get lots of little things like frequent free lunches, food at meetings, branded items and the T&E for travel is fairly lenient. - Its fun to work with booze - Lots of young people

Cons

- Diageo has no R&D mindset whatsoever, yet we throw the term innovation around liberally. Forget about developing anything truly unique. Any concept more complex than changing food coloring and sugar content just stifles the children of the corn at the technical center. - You end up becoming very good at creating the illusion that launching yet another flavored vodka in the same tired old package is a big accomplishment. - Most managers were brought up through the ranks rather quickly and spend most of their time hiding their incompetence. Managers can be viscous at times since they know they are not very marketable to other companies and will do anything to keep their jobs. - Diageo does not look great on a resume. Most interviewers do not know the name.

2.0
Oct 27, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Diageo has the strongest portfolio of brands in the beverage alcohol industry which helps them generate lots of cash for new initiatives and product support. That makes it a relatively stable place to work. Most years they pay a good annual bonus to the employees, and the salaries are among the highest in the industry.

Cons

Diageo is a really big company and like many big companies, they breed mediocrity in middle management. It's a very political organization and change is very slow. Most managers at Diageo say all the right things in dealing with their employees, but do all the wrong ones. Most managers don't respect work life balance, they don't actually coach and develop their people, and the annual planning and performance assessments are largely an exercise of requirement once or twice a year. The IT infrastructure is one of the worst in the fortune 500. Their PC operating system is windows 2000 (not a typo), the network doesn't have sufficient bandwidth, and there's absolutely no systems designed to enable work collaboration. It's been a mess since Diageo was formed, and it's only getting worse.

2.0
Jun 5, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Growing company that will develop very strong brands via new emphasis on solid branding

Cons

Passive agressive management style with hidden agendas

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