Company with potential, offers opportunity to learn and have great leaders, but CEO lacks leadership and vision - Anonymous employee SC Johnson Employee Review

2.0
3 Oct 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great brands. Good exposure. If interested, you can learn a lot and grow within. Good benefits and great people to work with. There are some great leaders trying to make it a great place for their people.

Cons

HQ location is not the best (Racine, WI), and on top of that they don’t have flexible commute plans in place. There is a Chicago office, but with very limited opportunities and a broken system to manage talent between the two offices. They are very old school when it comes to technology, telecommute policy and even dress code. CEO lost a lot of people’s respect when he showed minimal to none empathy to social issues like BLM. Also during COVID even though people kept pushing the company forward in so many ways, CEO kept desperately pushing for people to go back to the office because his perception is that WFH is not efficient at all. When people have been working hard and dealing with the whole stressful situation of a pandemic. The least they needed was to be forced back into the office . I wouldn’t be surprised once economy stabilizes and opportunities start to open, a lot of good talent will be leaving.

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Cons

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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
3 Jun 2026
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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
2w
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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