The Clorox Company reviews

Where do I begin? Take anything you were told in the interview process and assume it was a lie. That promotion you were told about? Good luck. Promotions are given out by favoritism, not merit, and even then they are not common. Told you could work flexibly? Sure, but expect the CEO to say nasty things about remote workers on company calls. My dealings with this company have been so toxic that I went from a lifelong Burt’s Bees and Clorox fan to a commitment to never support this company again. I just can’t bear to spend my money with a company that treats people like dispensable, value-less, pawns.

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.