L'Oréal Reviews

Pros

- You can get free goods, but most of them are slow moving products

Cons

- Training and development are promised but not encouraged
- Underpaid job, fast promotion but salary increase is laughable (e.g. a few hundreds HK dollars for promotion)
- Long working hours, require you to work in weekends with no OT paid or compensation leave
- Top management is not respectful
- No strategy to retain talents, very high turnover rate

Advice to Senior Management

Put people first. If you want to hire/retain someone with passion, you should first be passionate about development them. I saw a lot of talent left the company because of the poor management.

Pros

Scientifically based skincare products
Perks such as a 401k, 3 weeks vacation time, vested after 5 years
Highly skilled and intelligent sales team

Cons

Work life balance is crazy little downtime for yourself
Too many products that can be confusing to sell to end user

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to what you AE's need to balance their work week. Less admin and time out of the field dealing with forecasting, on SFDC

Pros

The buildings and offices are nice and comfortable. You can create a good network. You can improve your skills in a very stressful context

Cons

Working times are absurd even for an intern. You have to hardly look to get some useful information. People are not ready to help you.

Advice to Senior Management

The management should take some time to work more closely with their employees to better understand their needs and decisions.

Pros

Lot's of independent and challenging work

Cons

long hours and lot's of sitting at a desk

Advice to Senior Management

hire more interns

Pros

- good on cv
- great brands
- classical process driven compant

Cons

- UK is king - Ireland just a line on the P&L
- arrogant mansgemenr

Advice to Senior Management

Loosen up.

Pros

Autonomy, freedom to design our job and develop innovative projects, stimulating exposure, real and strong company culture, wonderfull products to work on, many opportunities to grow.

Cons

Internal political games and power fights, old habits, agility to change, inexistent project management, poor management competencies, listenning and transparency, The hierarchy opinion only prevails.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more brave and don't be fooled! More transparency, 360° and honest feedbacks to keep the talented one. Take really into account the feedbacks and inputs from the teams. Put in place a real participative way of managing people.

Pros

You will be able to meet people from diverse cultures and background. For girls, this may just be the dream land as it has everything to do with being beautiful and presentable.

Cons

I sometimes feel that they lack manpower as they have limited working space and thus, only able to accommodate the few. Yet, it's still a great place to work and learn from experienced people.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't exactly have any advise as I find the leadership and working condition pretty good. Except maybe, increase in manpower.

Pros

the environment maybe is the best in china

Cons

very far from my living place

Advice to Senior Management

not very efficiency

Pros

- Reputation : known and recognized worldwide for its expertise
- In-depth knowledge of marketing strategy
- Opportunities to evolve within the company and abroad
- Sense of detail, perfectionism

Cons

- Individualistic environment
- Competition among employees
- Strong hierarchy

Advice to Senior Management

Be more human and manage people in a more relaxed manner

Pros

What salary are you expecting? You probably don't want to answer this one directly. Instead, deflect the question back to the interviewer by saying something like: "I don't know. What are you planning on paying the best candidate?" Let the employer make the first offer.

Cons

owever, it is still important to know what the current salary range is for the profession. Find salary surveys at the library or on the Internet, and check the classifieds to see what comparable jobs in your area are paying. This information can help you negotiate compensation once the employer makes an offer.

Advice to Senior Management

Use this as a chance to summarize your good characteristics and attributes and how they may be used to benefit the organization