Decent place for recent college grads or soon to retire individuals; otherwise stay away if you can. - Anonymous employee The Clorox Company Employee Review

2.0
Feb 23, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Somewhat decent benefits, such as 401K program. Recent college grads can learn about corporate bureaucracy, at its finest.

Cons

Where do we start? Analysis paralysis is rampant. Organization is super vertical and one must stay in the their tiny sandbox to survive. Risk is avoided like the plague. The corporate lawyers have tremendous power, there's even a nickname for them, "IKE", which stands for "Innovation Killer Extraordinaire" Do you like attending meetings with 10+ people where nothing gets accomplished or decided? Multiple times a day? Come to Clorox. I once had to attend a meeting where the objective was to discuss who we should invite to the next meeting. "Meta- meetings" were perfected at Clorox. My senior R&D mentor once told me: "if you want to succeed here, just keep your head down, and don't speak up; you don't want to stand out from the herd. If you suggest new ideas it will look like you don't approve of the current strategy and you will be black-listed" Sad, but very true. A colleague of mine, long gone as well, was once berated by his manager and told "we are not paying you to come up with ideas; we are paying to do what you are told!" This is all true, even people who recommend Clorox will acknowledge everything I listed above. They just put their head down, go to meetings, nod and clap in agreement with everything that management says, and wait for 5:00pm to go home. They love it there. And so can you.

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Cons

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