Over-worked with low salaries, high admin & roles falsely advertised - Marketing Graduate SC Johnson Employee Review

2.0
Dec 6, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunity to develop is there, just need to know the right people Team is friendly

Cons

As a Grad felt that salaries were extremely low for the volume of work we do. You are often given tasks with deadlines which extend outside the working hour and but are told to work till 5pm. Says we work in Marketing, but I did barely any, it's more trade marketing than customer marketing- its all POS and digital, not the creative side at all Salaries are very low and is a trend repeated in any role you go into at SCJ. Spend a large amount of time doing admin roles, I would 60% of my role was sending samples, finish POs and Forms, setting up for Brand Day. The tasks and opportunity for development I had to fight for. HR is inefficient and at times too rigid, they enforce rules which make little to no sense, and are based on feelings rather than practicality. During my time, HR would make me come down and take photos of new starters- I was stationed in Marketing, this is not in my remit.

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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.
2.0
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Pros

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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