L'Oréal USA Reviews in New York, NY

I have been working at L'Oréal USA full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Entrepreneurial, innovative, fast-paced, challenging environment, but not competitive...people only compete with themselves.

Cons – Work/life balance, your career mobility depends on a lot on your manager's opinion, French management politics.

Advice to Senior Management – Work toward becoming less top-heavy. People spend too much time preparing for internal meetings and less time focusing on making the world more beautiful.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at L'Oréal USA full-time for less than a year

Pros – Many brands and opportunities to move around every 1.5 years
Business is growing

Cons – Top down management
Extremely political
Heavily micromanaged
Disempowering with little autnonomy
Poor work/life balance - does not match comp
Product innovation focused, not consumer driven
Not best place for experienced hires from other organizations; assimilation to corporate culture is difficult
Inconsistent hiring practices (people with same background can come in with different titles and comp)
More focus on recruitment than retention

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at L'Oréal USA full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great "school" to learn all marketing skills

Cons – Only one type of profile succeed, you really need to fit the L'Oreal mindset...no room for others!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at L'Oréal USA full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Innovative products, many opportunities, great benefits.

Cons – Poor work life balance, unfair sometimes on perks (work from home days/locations etc)

Advice to Senior Management – While doing what is best for company also keep in mind what is best for an employee. Work life balance is way off. Add support in all areas.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at L'Oréal USA full-time for less than a year

Pros – The L'Oreal Operations Internship program was very well prepared to teach interns about company values and the importance of communication.

Cons – Supervisors and management were usually too busy to do meetings regarding intern projects.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at L'Oréal USA full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Access to the best products and technology, the people

Cons – Tight budgets, insane hours, overworked and frazzled....where'd my life go?

Advice to Senior Management – Be realistic and empathetic, not everyone wants to eat, sleep, breathe their career

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at L'Oréal USA full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great benefits and perks
Learned a lot about the beauty industry and consumer goods
Allowed me to eventually be hands on

Cons – Manager changed 5 times in 2 years.
Low retention rate
Long hours
Couldn't progress without an MBA (experience doesn't count)

Advice to Senior Management – Hire people who really want this as their career. People left L'Oreal left and right.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at L'Oréal USA for more than 8 years

Pros – Its all about whet you put in to grow your career if you petrol high and network well opportunities are good. People are passionate hard working and motivated

Cons – Need to be able to manage multiple tasks and changing priorities

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at L'Oréal USA full-time for more than a year

Pros – great experience, access to products, respected name in industry

Cons – awful work/life balance, burnout rate is high, little upwards movement

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at L'Oréal USA as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Give a lot of responsibility to interns
Quality pay
Exposure to upper management
Multiple networking events with full-time employees
Friendly staff for the most part
Lenient with scheduling

Cons – Company needs synchronization between brands
Departments responsibilities need to be more clear
Work-life balance is not great for full-time employees
Do not properly educate new employees on their responsibilities

Advice to Senior Management – Need to provide more clarification of job responsibilities to employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend