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!
