Try to make the best of it until you inevitably move on - Anonymous employee Diageo Employee Review

4.0
Jan 8, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent atmosphere, spirited workforce, lots of candidness and good vibes. Many chances to make friends not just work colleagues due to out-of-work activities and parties / celebrations. Realistic opportunities to work abroad across the 5 continents with huge international and multicultural exposure. Good non-hierarchical speak-up culture where all can be discussed.

Cons

Certain tendency to favor Scottish or Anglo-Saxon backgrounds in favor of other cultures when appointing roles. Decision making slow and not very fact-based. Easy going attitude and behavior is encouraged ahead of analytical rigour or solid knowledge, which makes it a paradise for politics and mediocre individuals sometimes making it up to senior management based just on loyalty, not qualifications or merits. Target setting quite inconsistent, contradictory and last minute, and changing constantly. Lately obsessed with cost, again with inconsistent and too simplistic approach

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