Pros
• Decent staff allowance for quarterly goods across all 20+ brands • Training opportunities for upskilling and regular workshops (by Google, Facebook etc) • International mobility • Good starting ground for Management Trainees due to fast-track career path
Cons
• "Fluid" management which leads to indecisiveness and lots of unnecessary back-and-forth – lack of clarity and direction. • Political environment in brand marketing teams – high school all over again. Lots of bootlicking going on on a daily basis. Play the game or you lose. • "Kids" (MTs turned Pdt Managers) who have not worked anywhere else think they know it all and act like their years of work in Loreal correlates to having more "power". • Staff are constantly overworked and feel a need to ensure you "suffer" with them as well. If you don't buy into the "work over weekend" mentality, you are deemed not committed, not passionate, or not "Loreal-like". • Terrible for middle managers, especially those outside of the Marketing scope as priority/consideration is always given to Brand teams. • Sorely lacking guidance and mentorship for support functions sitting in the Marketing team. • Borderline workplace bullying with shouting matches and public shaming from peers.