Reckitt reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(4,287 total reviews)
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Kris Licht

73% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Reckitt has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 4,287 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Reckitt employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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4K reviews
1.0
Aug 27, 2015

Avoid Like the Plague

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

They have a decent Italian Espresso Machine. Caveat : There were two, then they thought they'd save money by keeping 1. Don't know how long that will last. You can learn exactly how a company doesnt work by being here. That will be useful learning when you are lucky to move on to a more established name.

Cons

Absolutely miserable place to be in. 9/10 people want to leave, the 1 that wants to stay is either in denial or has masochistic/sadistic tendencies. The work is enormous as they want to keep as few people as possible in order to be lean while being in denial that the lean they are pursuing is closer to Anorexia. This ends up putting people in positions where 50% of the work assigned is done half cooked, and leads only to a short term win and long term disaster. However the company rewards such behavior through its Bonus structure, which is essential since obtaining a good yearly bonus is the only way to draw parity with P&G/Unilever/Mars Payscales. Employees chase the small win to take home that extra pay knowning full well the work they are doing is unsustainable. Senior Management engages in Politics much more than actual work and again, its a culture driven from the top. Every Senior Manager acts a Policeman in the company and engages in inter-department rivalries so that the monkey is off their back and on someone else (Some do it only to manage their Work-Life Balance). It is staggering the amount of poor decision making that exists in the organization where SVPs get involved in how much bottled water to order, and which contractor to hire. It is an open secret that Mr Kapoor is lately signing off on hiring for non-managers as well personally. A new cost cutting program has simply put to a halt promotions, so entry to mid level managers can forget moving forward for a few years. Avoid, Avoid, Avoid and if a loved one is heading there, warn them !

1.0
Jan 9, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Maternity leave, vacation days, everything else similar to every other big cpg company

Cons

Majority of the reviews say that people are over worked. Reckitt demands outperformance, but doesn’t reward outperformance (just year end bonus). Exceed numbers and do more than job requirements, and you’ll still get average reviews and minimal raises. Reckitt forces everyone into a bell curve that tips to a leadership favoritism model, rather than results and workload. So many people leave and we were stuck doing double or triple roles with no reward. Inflation is at an all time high with projections higher next year. Reckitt’s solution is to do minimal pay increases and not backfill the people who are leaving. The overworked are going to be asked to do more with a net salary decline, everyone is looking for the door You may have a cool boss here, as I did, but at some point you will realize the company does not value you and there are other good managers out there.

2.0
Aug 5, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

While for the outsiders Reckitt might appear as a FMCG player full of confidence and other qualities, from the inside the situation is very different.

Cons

In the last 10 years the company has been passing through various harmful phases that brought it from the powerful engine created by Bart Becht to the out-of-steam reality that is now. Too many errors have been made along the road in one decade, enough to write a book about it. Most of the acquisitions have failed to scale-up and become global successes (Scholl, Schiff, Mead Johnson), and internal projects such as SuperCharge have suffocated the company by depriving it of the resources to invest. This has generated a ripple effect that implicitly invited most of the in-house talents to run away and accept offers from wiser enterprises. What remained was the least talented selection of talents and we can see the results 10 years later. The company has been lucky enough to leverage on 2020-21 external factors that we all know well to sustain sales for specific Health and Hygiene brands, but what would have happened without those? There’s no innovation, only acquisition of startups that are not yet scaling up consistently because there’s no successful model yet to share to scale up businesses. And I can’t even recall when was the last time that Gaviscon, Strepsils or even Durex genuinely innovated their lineup. It’s all a giant cash cow to foster new acquisitions of startups that are not scaled up successfully. And the flywheel continues. If you’re still here up to this point and you’re considering whether to join or not this company while having multiple offers in hand, I would strongly suggest you pick the offer where you can find the smartest possible people to work with. This is how you’re going to grow and succeed. Don’t settle for average or below.

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