Danone Reviews

Pros

Have learned a lot, good and safe working conditions. Healthy nutritional foods and caring for poorer countries.training offered regulary.

Cons

Career growth slow in general if not French national

Advice to Senior Management

More in touch with staff

Pros

Experience in merchandising, direct and indirect sales. Training programs. Support from the management. Teamwork and loyality among the employees. Attractive social package.

Cons

Low salary. No possibility to grow in a short term period. Intensive travelings, which are not always connected with the main target.

Advice to Senior Management

Adding new responsibilities to the employees would allow an increase of their salaries and would bring them larger experience and ability to solve problems.

Pros

well known brand, allowed to work idependently and a lot of responsibility, great and nice collegeaus, free yoghurts, next to s-bahn

Cons

long working hours, a lot of collegeaus are pretty competitive, confidentially working hours, no free food during lunch, located in Haar, not Munich center

Pros

Match between my values and the company's. Excellent learning environment. Challenges constantly. Compensation is motivating. Work culture is informal and caring.

Cons

Too much autonomy to local GMs who may not always be the most competent people to take up the position.

Advice to Senior Management

Think and act beyond Europe. A european solution is not always the best for the rest of the world.

Pros

Good compensation, good work life balance

Cons

Poor IT systems, poor project management, euro model not suitable for Asia Pac, culture not healthy

Advice to Senior Management

Need to balance the experience with youth. Improve IT systems.

Pros

International, diverse, career opportunities, responsability

Cons

Not very process oriented and structured which can lead to frustration

Advice to Senior Management

Keep it going!

Pros

Have the chance to work with increasing responsibilities
Encourage the test and learn
Good culture with focus on H.O.P.E

Cons

Salary lower than industry average

Pros

Best practice environment, big name in the industry, global pool of knowledge, excellent performance appraisal system.

Cons

Big organization - one might get lost in the crowd and might take some time to find one's place.
Not a very good pay master (at least for junior-mid manager levels).

Pros

Fast Paced, tons of projects to get involved with, great brand name

Cons

HR is very uneffective and is has very little impact on employees general well being and is mostly concerned with passing a good image to corporate HQ , not backed up by actual initiatives.

Advice to Senior Management

For HQ´s HR staff: dig deeper into the affiliates HR practices - don´t be fooled by reports and good personal marketing done by HR directors.

Pros

It is business oriented, very ambitious company, with smart management team and good business perspective. and plenty of staff benefits.

Cons

but it still less systemastic trainning system and stable information system, and focus on short term return too much sometime.

Advice to Senior Management

Please try to invest on young staffs and educate fresh graduates, build stronger corporation's culture. longer views for business growth.