Feb 6, 2014
Check your personal life at the door
Anonymous employee
Reckitt reviews
3.7
69% would recommend to a friend
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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3.0
Jan 15, 2014
Great learning experience, not a long term sustainable work place!
Former employee, more than 8 years
Parsippany, NJ
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Pros
Great benefits and decent salaries for the industry. At manager levels and above the bonuses can be very very good. Challenging work, plenty of responsibility, if you are an A-type personality and stand out to management plenty of opportunities to move around within the company. In 8 years I had 4 different positions. Good learning experience. There are a few exceptional managers/directors that I was lucky enough to encounter and they were great mentors to me. Very diverse company and if you want to experience living/working in another country they encourage/require it.
Cons
Where do I even begin: No work/life balance what so ever. At RB they expect work to be your life. Most employees are fresh out of grad-school, young unmarried or newly married with no children....that's the only way you can put in all those hours. As soon as people want a family they are moving to other companies that actually care about their employees. It's a very tough and ruthless culture...and I mean RUTHLESS! If you are not internationally mobile no sense in sticking around because you are not getting beyond a junior manager role. Extremely lean organization, which is why people have to work so many hours and under such high stress. Expect to be doing 2 to 3 people's jobs... Low morale especially in the Finance organization. Not enough time in each position, people are moving sometimes after a year, 15 months of being in a position. Just when you start to gain expertise in an area they throw you head first into something totally new. No consistency Boys club....if you are not making the right friends and going to happy hours etc. then expect to not get noticed. Too many meetings, priorities and objectives constantly changing, very reactive vs. competitors, etc. I can go on but I'm sure everyone gets the point!
4.0
Jan 10, 2014
Start-up company masquerading as a big CPG
Current employee, more than 3 years
Parsippany, NJ
Recommend
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Pros
RB is rich in diversity, both culturally and nationality-wise. Folks that you will meet across functions could literally be from anywhere - India, Turkey, Aussie, UK, Brazil, you name it. Promotions are not structured or by class year of entry - rather, largely merit based or some other measure not tied to years on the role. Pace is pretty demanding, which is perfect for A-types fresh out of b-school that are looking to conquer the world. Work culture-wise, there are many different sub-cultures across brand teams and verticals. Some are fun. Some are not. It's the luck of the draw.
Cons
Company is very short-term focused, with in-year results being paramount. This leads to very tactical considerations vs. broader brand building equity initiatives that won't pay out until much later. Hence, pure marketers who do not desire the general management route should pass. Agencies seem to require extensive hand-holding, possibly because RB's rep scares away the competent ones. Despite what others say about RB regarding poor treatment of employees, RB does on occasion roll out the kid-gloves and keeps non-productive employees on payroll for months on end w/o any action. (This is actually a con because who wants to work with free-loaders that only distract the team with their jibjab and sit on their asses all day). The blend of free-loaders and handful of superstars results in an average talent pool. In shooting for out-performance, not a great formula for success.
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