Scotts Miracle-Gro Reviews

Pros

Great brands and great category

Cons

Too many organizational changes and downsizing.

Pros

Pay was good, and enjoyed the work. People were easy to get along with and managers treated you well. If they trusted you to do your job it was very easy and there was lots of freedom, if not you had someone breathing down your neck making sure things got done properly.

Cons

Lots of driving between stores and the hours are not always guaranteed. Working outside with soils and fertilizer is rough during a Houston summer but bearable.

Pros

Great benefits, flexible work schedule, great compensation, treated fairly

Cons

Too few associates for amount of work. Poor high management project organization. Reactive instead of proactive company. High workload.

Advice to Senior Management

Narrow down project lines so most of focus and energy can be placed on a few projects instead of minimum focus and energy on too many projects. We waste too much time working on things that end up being dropped from our portfolios. We need much better forecasting.

Pros

Pay was above par.
Benefits were good.

Cons

Long layoffs.
Lack of balance between work and personal lives.
Goals are more important than customer service.
Mid season payraises well below national average.

Advice to Senior Management

Break up the boys club and learn to treat your employees with respect. Take some management 101 training classes

Pros

Mediocre paycheck, mediocre benefits, mediocre commissions for the trouble. Not a bad job for building experience in a "high-pressure" role. Co-workers are actually a lot of fun,

Cons

60+ hour work week, no life, high pressure scripts, two months of mandatory unemployment every year, Chinese overtime (paid at about $5 an hour, not even sure how this is legal but apparently it is). Jump ship when you can, if you can sell here you can make twice as much somewhere else.

Advice to Senior Management

No point whatsoever in offering this... these guys stopped caring a long time ago, believe me it shows.

Pros

Health Benefit plan, Dental plan, Vision plan, Company car, 401K Plan, Company holiday schedules, Global outreach, Diverse Product lines and categories

Cons

24/7 Work expectation, Fear of Retaliation, Promotions decided before postings, Untrustworthy management, Cut throat work enviroment, Lack of Technological tools

Pros

Make great products. Well respected by other companies.

Cons

Work life balance. Expected to be available 24/7.

Pros

Very results oriented. Company likes to move fast. Very nice headquarters in Marysville. They have very strong brands in lawn and garden category and are the biggest player in this segment.

Cons

People are simply not respected. They are considered dispensible. Minimal work life balance. Expect to work 24/7 with the reward being 'allowed' to keep your job. Financially, very dependent on weather and seasonal in nature. If it is a good weather year, the company does well. If not, employees are let go very regularly. As a result, this is not a place where your build a career. Rather this is where you do a job.

Advice to Senior Management

Respect people. Hire and promote people in senior management who truly respect people that work for them, and not pretend to do so to get promotions.

Pros

Pay is great. Sometimes the travel is long.

Cons

Work is hot and hard

Advice to Senior Management

Offer smaller territories and more management for those territories.

Pros

company car
vacation
sales meeting
strong team mates

Cons

A weak salary compared to other management jobs in the same field.

Promise of a bonus to help off set the weak salary and to make up for the fact you are salary and working 60+ hours a week for 40 weeks a year. (and then getting 0 for a bonus )

As soon as the year looks bad due to weather or bad sales they start laying people off and try to spin it as a positive and SM's end up with double the work load to make up for it, while being under paid.

No quality of life we are still working 6 days a week for 7 months out of the year answering emails till 11pm at night and on Sundays our one day off. Forget having a family you never get to see them.

The company feels like it can get you to do anything with out complaining because they know the economy is bad so its hard to find anything else and is using it against there employees.

we are all just easily replaced parts in the big Scotts machine

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to treat your employees with respect. Take some management 101 training classes

break up the boys club