Lots of change taking place, uncertain future - Sales SC Johnson Employee Review

3.0
23 Nov 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Strong brands, good place to learn the industry and if you're young and MOBILE in sales then there are opportunities for you here. The company is going through a lot of change right now, I think it will take several years for all the kinks to be to be worked out from the last restructure but I do believe SCJ will be in a better place moving forward as a result of the changes.

Cons

Taking away work from home benefits unless you live over 20 miles from office. Taking away company cars for lower level employees (analyst level). Recently demoted several positions along with a restructure. If you're experienced in sales and come here it's going to be tough to grow - there is not much movement for upper level account management because people don't want to move. Company is trying to change this but it's tough. Beware of joining customer marketing with the promise to be promoted out of the category sales management position. There is POTENTIAL to be promoted out of that role, but I think too many people join the company and think that it's a guarantee they will be promoted in a few years. In reality, very few people get promoted out of that job, you'll most likely take a lateral move to an account team once something opens up (which is not often). I see lots of people get "stuck" in customer marketing for years longer than they intend to. Also many external employees join the company in sales first through customer marketing, that's because not many internal candidates want to join the department.... Moving toward "open work space" environment - could be a pro or con depending on your work style. Upper management does not understand workload levels of employees - sales teams are unbalanced with some teams having way too many people without much work to do and other teams barely able to get by with a team of 2. Management hiring a lot of external talent which gives the impression that management does not think current employees have strong capabilities. Company going through a culture change after a restructure - employee morale is very low. It appears management knows morale is low, but isn't doing much about it?

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SC Johnson Response
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We appreciate you taking the time to share your experience with us! We are happy to read that you enjoyed the vision, leadership, brands and more at our family company.
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You will not be bothered by people talking to you, benefits seem okay.

Cons

Don’t expect to be trained on anything. Management will expect you to figure things out on your own, request your own accesses and figure out what you need without any guidance. They’ll send people to you for questions on how to do stuff within your first couple days, not having taught you how to do those things.

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SC Johnson Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback. We appreciate your comments regarding onboarding and training and will take your feedback into consideration. We have shared your experience with the appropriate team.
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