Kimberly-Clark reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(3,047 total reviews)
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Michael D. Hsu

80% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Kimberly-Clark has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,047 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kimberly-Clark employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.7 stars).

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5.0
Apr 3, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

It's a great company that has a very defined organizational culture. They encourage all employees to follow the same goals and the whole company is very well aligned. They're also very commited to participate in the communities where they have their products, by helping to the environment with the modern plants that do not contaminate that much as others; they worry about all the waste that comes out of production and recycle all the paper that is thrown out in the offices, in order to use it to produce more toilet paper, napkins, paper towel, etc. And the best part for me of working in Kimberly Clark was that they keep always a fluent communication between management and employees, and there are no barriers between senior management and regular employees. You can just enter into their office and talk to them anytime you need.

Cons

At least in my country, the salaries where not that good, but somehow they compensate that by giving you additional benefits like private health insurance, they pay for your car insurance, they give you big discounts in the products of Kimberly Clark, and once a year, when the sales and profit goals of the year are accomplished, they take the whole commercial area to a trip to the caribbean, where they have a convention but also celebrate the results.

2.0
Apr 3, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

The best reason to work for K-C is to get experience in outsourcing to foreign countries and understanding how you can become a guider vs. a doer.

Cons

The performance rating system that they used was so time consuming that any gains that the upper echelon was sold on went out the door and then some. The system consisted of 9 boxes that you could be placed in. Box 1 meant you were a bad employee, oops I mean you had opportunities, and box 9 meant you were the cream of the crop. The kicker was each box had set percentage people that had to fall in them. At the end it all still boiled down to whether or not your manager liked you or not. Watching the government trying to manage today’s crumbling economy reminds all to much of Tom and upper management of K-C.

1.0
Mar 22, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Great brands and a large number of highly talented employees.

Cons

Change-averse, no risk-taking, no honest efforts to diversity workforce, not willing to accept "outsiders," Neenah is center of the universe, white men rule, good ol' boy network at the top, popularity is more important than performance, culture cannot tolerate any conflict, everyone pretends everything is OK all the time, "outsiders" are often ostracized, glass ceiling for women, very small number of of black, hispanic and asian employees, diversity figures are getting worse under Falk.

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