Smile and say yes - Anonymous employee Diageo Employee Review

3.0
Apr 22, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Full home-office, relatively calm in lower positions. Good if you don't expect much.

Cons

Terribly low wages, zero willingness to raise them significantly even in critical situations, eg. they gave the usual 8% per year when inflation was 15% that year (25% in some months). Too much emphasis on informal, personal relationships, they tell you that you have to "sell yourself" if you want to step further, share details about your personal life, take part in corporate bulls@&t events and pretend that you like it. They have their vocabulary (eg. "visibility") to let you know that your work doesn't really count, it's more how much you are in the a#&es of bosses. Corporate ideology mixed with old Hungarian informality.

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