SC Johnson Reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(1,512 total reviews)
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H. Fisk Johnson

80% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

SC Johnson has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,512 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SC Johnson employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Apr 5, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1) Loads of experience 2) Well regarded in the CPG circle- easy to get a job interviews/jobs when you plan to quit the company 3) They have a lot of committees within the company- so it is easy to get involved in all of these committees and develop your communication skills.

Cons

1) If you are a person of a minority group- you may want to avoid this company- many people working within this company have very little travel experience. Unfortunately, often they are ignorant of other cultures and view them suspiciously. Very often they ask very offending questions and already have a viewpoint of a culture even before getting to know them. 2) There are some people who are marked as "superstars"- no matter what a mess of things they make, senior management continues to promote them. On the other hand, senior management refuses to work on people are are willing to work hard and want to develop their skill set. Its a sad state of affairs- things only got worse with the recession setting in. 3) Not a culture where one can trust people. I worked in Finance for quite a few years and ended up leaving the company in 2009 because I was so frustrated. They place too much importance in a person being aggressive without giving them the tools to get ahead. They basically do not believe in investing their people, although they say they do- infact they don't. This is infact the most common complaint for many people working in the company. 4) They are obsessed about winning the war against P&G and this is the company's #1 priority. Unfortunately, this has led to a lot of bad decision making by senior management in the recent past. 5) They are located in the middle of nowhere- BRANTFORD- most Canadians don't seem to know where that is. The town is small, with lots of poor people, bums on streets and unsafe neighbourhoods.

1.0
Nov 10, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits, profit sharing, company owned vacation cottages. Most of the production staff in manufacturing (colleagues), Company store, etc.

Cons

Upper and Lower management personnel are terrible and treat most of the manufacturing employees like garbage! Harassment toward employees (more so female production workers). If any of us develop medical issues or concerns; they either don't care, accuse us of lying or in a few cases have fired people for having anything medically wrong with them (ie,. arthritic conditions). I've witnessed a former employee get picked on and harassed by more than one manager and then fired because of developing arthritis and needing knee replacements. Other employees that have similar issues are now not seeking treatment because they figure they too will get fired eventually. Other former collegues have been fired without being given a reason whatsoever. No Union!

1.0
Feb 9, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you had a time machine, I would recommend dialling it back to the late 90's early 2000's. There are things like company store, onsite gym and cottages, but one's mental health is not a fair trade.

Cons

Incompetent management, inability to make decisions, products launched without proper support, no appetite to fire incompetent workers, management talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk (re: promotions, performance reviews), inability to be promoted unless someone quits or retires, many senior marketers incompetent, fighting amongst departmental upper management. The company is a former shell of what it used to be - if you want to work for a CPG, you are best working for those in the GTA; what made this company special is long gone and SCJ is no different or worse than other CPGs.

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SC Johnson Response
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Thank you for writing. It’s tough to hear how disappointed you are with the company. It’s true that the SCJ of today is different from the SCJ of 10 or 20 years ago. But we respectfully disagree that all the changes have been bad. In fact, many are designed to help us become stronger than we’ve ever been. We certainly aren’t perfect, and we’ve had some bumps in the road. But we still believe SCJ has a great heart and a lot of incredibly talented and committed people. We hope that if you choose to stay with SCJ, you’ll help us keep improving and growing every day.
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