Kimberly-Clark Reviews

Pros

Great benefits! Generous vacation offered with ability to purchase more. Immediate supervisor and team was fabulous to work with.

Cons

Upper management somewhat out of touch. Peer review process unwieldy and often irrelevant waste of time. Feedback often vague (canned and prompted responses) and therefore unuseful. 2009 Executive management announced a company-wide plan to improve office environment and then took many departments (I worked in creative department/marketing) discarded offices and shoved us in tiny 8' x 8' cubicles. Couple that with the fact that team leads were extremely reluctant to allow us to work remotely while claiming to care about gas consumption and touting itself as a "green" company. Atlanta traffic is notoriously bad and I often spent over an hour getting to work. I lived less than 20 miles away.

Advice to Senior Management

Resolve the disconnect between what your initiatives state in your company-wide meetings and announcements, and the reality of what is happening at individual department levels. There is often a large and largely unnoticed discrepancy.

Pros

Good salary for a co-op
Free product, or reduced rates on product
Schedule flexibility
Management recognizes you have a life outside of KC

Cons

Too many meetings, too little productivity
No one can make decisions. They spend millions on research, yet can't implement much needed improvements to current products.
The employee rating system seems to be designed to intimidate rather than improve performance.

Pros

The company appraises self-initiated projects and hard work and promotes quicker. Opportunity to lead and to influence multiple projects across divisions.

Cons

Long hours and average pay. It’s expected to start work at 6:30 a.m. and work until 5-6 p.m. every day. It’s also expected to work on the weekends. Leadership does do what says.

Advice to Senior Management

Life work balance needs to be changed. People are overloaded with multiple projects and priorities. Company lacks focus – every project is important and needs to be done.

Pros

Decent salary for location.
Decent benefits.
They give you lunches and free product on occasion but not as much as they used to.

Cons

Location sucks unless you like the cold.
Days are too overloaded with meetings. (common to have anywhere from 7-10 a day).
They don't seem to value experienced knowledgeable employees who want to stay at their current position and not trying to make it to the top.

Pros

Opportunities for personal growth and they are big on developing leadership qualities. If you want to climb the corporate ladder this is one place to look.

Cons

Annual review scores force 10% into the low-performance range, 80% mid range, and 10% upper range. Odds are, long hours or extra effort are graded average. So next year, you don't try as hard.

Advice to Senior Management

Find a new review process to better evaluate and reward employees for the contributions they make. Provide a wider range of perfomance based incentives.

Pros

KC provides consistency in job role.

Cons

Management focuses too much on today instead of long-term.

Advice to Senior Management

Be honest. Tell us pay is being cut to save money, not some other silly plan.

Pros

The people that work there are very friendly. They work hard and are willing to help you whenever needed. Also the company has started working on strategy on how to achieve goals, which has helped them to make better decisions and be more long term focused

Cons

decision making is bogged down and the leadership doesn't seem to value people enough and provide development opportunties. Also there is still too much of short term focus on development activities which sometimes leads to innovative ideas being shelfed and management being unwilling to take risks.

Pros

insurance and paycheck is good.

Cons

rotating shift and upper managment really is disconnected.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen and trust your people who got you where you are,

Pros

Good work environment. work crews supportive of eacother. room for educational growth. Very strong work force at the Everett Facility.

Cons

They treat you like puppets when negotioations come around or when they decide to shut the mill down. They keep employees in the dark and don't share anything until the last possible moment.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employees like they zare valued and not commodities. That the 850 people that are losing their jobs at the holidays are worthy of being treated better. That closing a mill that is a profit making mill, seems a bit ridiculous in this economy. To take the operations to Brazil and open something up at substandard pay shows that Kimerly-Clark is only interested in one thing.

Pros

Good pay and good benefits with a strong sense of community.

Cons

Closing our local mill due to a poor business decision made by the leadership.

Advice to Senior Management

allow fair competition buy selling mill to a possible competitor instead of destroying the site.