Amazing people and brands, terrible to work for in 2022 - Vice President L'Oréal Employee Review

2.0
Jul 5, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

You get to work alongside some of the most talented, passionate, and diverse people in the world! L'Oreal is truly an organization that is committed to making the world a better place through all of their sustainability and DE&I commitments. Incredibly fast paced, highly competitive environment that is great for individuals that thrive with this type of energy. The highly matrixed environment can be a bit frustrating at times but generally creates much more powerful initiatives.

Cons

Health insurance is terrible, even with the highest coverage PPO plan. Costs have skyrocketed over the last couple of years the increases go well beyond any increases in salary - even with stellar performance. If there are issues with claims it takes hours on the phone over multiple sessions to get resolved. Expect to pay well above the deductible and out of pocket max since that only applies to what Anthem deems 'appropriate'. Current employees are being compensated well below market value and there are no plans to reevaluate comp levels. Only new hires are coming in with competitive salaries and are compensated well above tenured employees. We make a truly stunning amount of money for a very select group of people. HR has far too much power over career mobility and the evaluation system they use to evaluate talent is opaque. If you get misclassified somewhere along the way you may not even be aware and it could take years to fix it.

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Cons

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Pros

Good health insurance, that’s about it

Cons

toxic work culture and they don’t set up external candidates for success extremely tedious trainings required that have nothing to do with your daily job seems like they add processes just to make things look complicated when they are truly just launching a shampoo trainings were given sporadically and chaotically, and we’re not clearly shared to all new hires teams were backstabbing and threw each other under the bus in order to not get yelled at by leadership in meetings very catty Office politics and people whispering all the time they paint a fake exterior of inclusivity, fun, events, and socializing, but truly all of it is fake you have to really love cosmetics to work here or you will never fit in extremely marketing driven… R&D teams do not get any input or say and are just told what to do every day regardless of cost or feasibility Manager never had time to actually train me because everyone is so slammed packed with work workload is way too high per person Clark office did not have enough desks for everybody and booking was very annoying, regularly had to fight for desks extremely strict in office policy where they track your badge and you have to commit to today’s ahead of time to be in office forced socializing and events several times a month boring work but they make you feel like it’s the end of the world if a shampoo bottle doesn’t get launched marketing team quibbles over commas and apostrophes on product as if it matters had multiple meetings about different shades of white, and which white was the right white for packaging mandatory in person trainings that had nothing to do with your role Pay seemed high at first, but was absolutely not worth it once the role started

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