Lots of data - few decisions. - Senior Scientist The Clorox Company Employee Review

3.0
Dec 10, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Clorox will give you responsibility from day one. They may not train you for it, but you can have an impact early if you are a self-starter and understand relationships. You can have some work life balance if you are competent, know how to say 'no', and can recognize downtime when it comes around.

Cons

Layers of managment complicate decision making and action. Alignment is king. It takes 2 weeks to do the work and anther four to navigate things through the system of 'leadership teams'. Managment will eventually make a medium-hard call with 150% of the necessary data when trapped like a rat in a cage. The entire company is run on 18-24 month AMM assignment cycles. If you work on a business for more than a year or two, it starts to feel like groundhog day. New ideas are few and far between and often get killed by the system. No one can say yes to something, but anyone can say no. Promotion is slow just about everywhere. Don't be afraid to leverage outside offers to get what you need. It has created legions of directors. When a mid-senior position is open, they will tend to look outside first. Clorox loves the new employee and tends to ignore rising internal talent until there is a crisis. No detail is too insignificant for Clorox to measure, discuss, and fail to act on. If you want to spend your career trying to cajole others into agreeing on how to gather data and interpret it, this is the place for you!

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