Vapid, Cutthroat, and Appalling - Anonymous employee L'Oréal Employee Review

1.0
Feb 19, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The perks of the job were nice (company store, expense accounts, etc)

Cons

Image matters more than substance throughout the entire company. A bunch of well-put-together airheads walking around acting catty and cliquey. If you're not French you're at a huge disadvantage and looked down upon if you work closely with colleagues or have a reporting structure up to people who are French. Capable and effective people are overlooked for promotion in lieu of people who are pretty or whose only talent is internal political brownnosing. Marketing at this company is not REAL marketing, it's taking orders from Paris and seeing how best you can plug European products into American shelves. Marketing at L'Oreal USA = merchandising. Managers throughout the company are horrible to their employees because the tone at the top promotes such behavior. You're expected to constantly be working and personal time seemed to be considered sinful and lazy.

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L'Oréal Response
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Thank you for your time with L’Oréal and for your feedback. We're happy to hear that you enjoyed the many benefits of working at L’Oréal. We value the experience and contribution of every employee and believe in creating a workplace that respects the balance between work and life. We know how important flexibility is to our employees and have created programs like summer Fridays, work from home policies and flexible work hours to help them succeed in and out of the office. We even offer a concierge service so people can get personal tasks done during the workday.

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