Clorox Reviews

Pros

Great leadership in the upper/corporate management level
Above average compensation package
HR department is one of the best at the Forest Park plant
Alot of teamwork on the floor with your fellow employees

Cons

Each plant is run as if it was an individual company
Need to be more consistant on decisions
Need fewer meetings

Advice to Senior Management

Continue with the strong corporate leadership, but promote more from the floor of the plants, thats where real working knowledge and skills can help make decisions.

Pros

Work life balance. Strong, ethical company that emphasizes humility, compassion, and high standards; doing the right thing and serving the community.

Cons

Conservative, risk averse style. Lots of politics involved in business decisions and personnel decisions such as promotions. Promotions don't seem to be based on how smart one is or how hard one works.

Advice to Senior Management

Connect more with all employees, not just a few of them.

Pros

Collaborative environment
VERY smart people
Recognition of hard work
Interesting work (despite what you might think given their brands :)

Cons

Overall, the people are wonderful, but I have seen some questionable hires in management positions. Clorox very much respects the P&G's and Ivy Leaguers of the world and in my opinion sometimes hires based only on background and not overall fit or contribution. Have only seen it a few times so far.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you're doing! I love the inverted pyramid management style and constant communication to employees.

Pros

Convenient bay location
Lots of young folks in the entry to middle levels
Interesting brand categories
Great support for diversity

Cons

Lack of clarity to corporate agenda
Disappointing treatment of employees during downsizing
Aged leadership - out of touch
Slow to adopt new technology - poor systems

Advice to Senior Management

Be bold. Be clear and live candor instead of just talking it.

Pros

The training is in-depth and intense, the people are smart.

Cons

The threats of being “Walked out of the door for almost any infraction” starts the first day of orientation, I should have run then but thought that I could make a difference. The culture is very political; it’s who you know and a very critical unthankful environment. You will get credit as a whole from corporate meetings, but crew leads, never.

Advice to Senior Management

Killing us softly and quietly with paperwork overload and other new things being added that we can do for Clorox. It never ends. the paper work overload while trying to run the line and other such non-sense. Everybody knows that a lot of that paperwork is being pencil whipped, but we don’t stop because it’s the Clorox way.

Pros

Professional working environment.
Employees are very focused in their work.
Employees are respectful of one another in general
Nice location

Cons

Not much opportunity for promotion if you don't have an advanced degree. I feel sorry for the technicians as they are stuck doing the same mundane tasks.
Some fraternization between the managers and their direct report.

Advice to Senior Management

Please listen to both sides of the stories when confronted with a situation. Could it be one employee is a favorite of the manager?
Communicate effectively
No need to brush off an employee's suggestion

Pros

smart people, supportive environment, good leadership, diversity, benefits package is great,

Cons

run like a mom and pop, slow to change,

Advice to Senior Management

management should be consistent in all departments and it is not. there is a leadership imbalance.

Pros

Easy going workplace
Half Day Friday
Good distribution of women and men (women engineers are not minority)

Cons

Political
Easier to come in with more respect from another company than internally

Advice to Senior Management

Be honest about promotions/leveling

Pros

Smart people, great training ground for marketing, only recruit at the best MBA programs, great resume builder, great brand name, very close to BART, decent food options around the building

Cons

VERY VERY political, hierarchy is very important, slow and process driven, good ideas are far less important than who (at a higher grade level) likes you, NOT diverse (marketing is 80% women and executive committee is nearly all white males), and arrogant. Most of the folks in marketing have IVY league backgrounds and certainly act that way...very ivory tower. If you don't fit the culture, you'll know fairly quickly and will be looking around for another job within 2 years.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop hiring only for IQ and start considering EQ. Most folks are great individual contributors and do not know a lick of how to MANAGE. Start empowering folks early on and stop focusing on how to work on weaknesses. There's a reason that marketing is a revolving door of top flight MBAs. You bring in 20 MBAs all from top 10 schools and only promote 7 after 3 years because people are fired or they hate their job so much they leave.

Pros

- Marketing driven - CPGs are good to learn marketing from the pro's - Very good training programs and a good example of sharing best practices across SBUs

Cons

- Extremely political - Management doesn't really care about the lower levels of the organization - Analysis paralysis - Not a good place for people with diverse background, particularly Hispanics or African Americans - Juniors' opinions are not taken into account or at least not seriously

Advice to Senior Management

- Ensure that management is fair with employees at all levels of the organization - Care about employees with diverse backgrounds