Reckitt reviews

Too many meetings, always working for a meeting deck No time for day to day work which leads to long hours, even weekends. 28 people resigned in the last 4 months in the USA Marketing Base salary is barely par or below market average because they boast about high bonus structure which is a scam. Bonus KPI is always set to be unachievable. Dont fall for this trap.

Where to begin. Company Leadership 1. Company leadership have a magpie problem (i.e. an affinity towards "shiny things"). Where they just jump from buzzword to buzzword depending on the flavour of the month. A few examples would be "market penetration", "connected devices", "social listening", "AI". While many of these topics were mentioned and pushed there was no substantial shift towards any of these things. 2. The constant and unnecessary organisation restructuring creates an uncertain environment every 3 years. 3. The blaming. Management would restructure in a certain way, it would fail, then management would say "..the system is broken because there is no accountability. We need to change again". But the system was introduced by management in the first place. 4. It is a boys club culture; if neither your boss nor yourself are in the club, good luck making any progress career wise or other within the organisation. The Company Culture. 1. They pride themselves on how badly they treat their suppliers, contractors and customers. It's all considered "the RB way". 2. A teamwork mentality is not fostered. In fact the CEO at the time liked the conflict between employees as he believed it would encourage hard work and getting more bang for the little buck the company provided. 3. A big principal of success at RB is that it's now how much work you do, it is how much you can show off. 4. It is important to attend all meetings regardless of how pointless they are. It provided opportunities for visibility but most meetings had very little substance. 5. People aren't encouraged to retrain, learn new concepts. Attempts to train marketing and insight people on tools like Google Analytics and Social Listening often failed. Career development 1. Unless you work in Sales or Marketing; there is very little career development. In Sales or Marketing, there is a clear path provided to climb up the ladder but it is built more on relationships than actual work. 2. Very easy for anyone to make sideways job changes regardless of skills, experience or expertise. It's quite east to say move from, say Marketing to something more technical like Artificial Intelligence. Innovation 1. Dunning Kruger Syndrome - this is a phenomenon extremely common @ RB. Because of the genuine lack of knowledge, particularly in the digital, technology and connected space; many at the organisation consider themselves experts in the field. This leads to obvious issues around the wrong people managing areas they know little about. 2. Very little actual innovation within the organisation. Due to the Dunning Kruger Sydnrome, most of the intelligence - particularly within the digital, technology and connected space - sits outside of the company within third parties. 3. The lack of innovation is a result of the type of employees who are suited to RB (sales, marketing, communicators) 4. Intelligent and experienced Data Analysts, Tech Enginners and IOT experts are often marginalised because they struggle with the "Sales and Marketing" culture of the organisation