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.