Pros
- If you are coming into the company as a GMT, you work on a 'premium' level when compared to everyone else at the Company who are not GMTs. You have a separate HR system and classification structure that trumps the rest of the common folk when it comes to advancement. As a result, if you are reading this thinking about signing on as a GMT, congratulations! Because of your degree from <insert top school here> you instantly qualify to take over the job of folks who may have been with the Company for 1 or 2 decades. - If you are from Brazil or Belgium, congratulations! You have what it takes to be in upper management. Pat yourself on the back. Job well done. - Working in the beer industry has some perks - you get to drink beer at work from time to time. - Relocation packages are nice (if "available"). If given a chance move to New York or abroad with a sweet package, leave after the vesting period ends (typically 1-2 years), profit. - Big Company, lots of opportunities to move and relocate at the expense of all contacts with family and friends. - The people not in management. World class and love what they do, despite the toll it takes on everything else in their lives.
Cons
- 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.