Vantaggi
You learn a lot about the dark side of marketing/ sunset marketing and the truth behind the tobacco industry and it's numbers. If you can talk and look pretty, this is for you. They pay more than average even for fresh grads simply to keep up this elitist and exclusive vibe. Hear them speak and the image crumbles. More flair than content cause there are too many employees who are still living in the golden days and refuse to change their ways of working. These legacy people stay for so long that eventually it gets so hard to be promoted that some people who left are already earning 3x in a short amount of time.
Svantaggi
- no proper onboarding/ guidance. Existing people constantly feel threatened by new people. Nothing is ever taught genuinely for the sake of smoother execution. It's all about individualism here. - the louder you are the better. The more you go out drinking with the bosses the better. Your actual work? Barely matters as long as you can come up with some excuse and if your expat managers love you, you're good to go. Management doesn't really know the on the ground issues. - experienced blatant racism cases. Example, Key Accounts department were speaking very lowly about a certain demographic in a rather loud "discussion" for the public to hear. Sadly, this particular demographic is your main customer. Imagine if they found out about the racist remarks. - expats playing ground. Locals treated like second priority. Local sensitivities are never considered.