L'Oréal Reviews

Pros

Best beauty brand in the world
Great colleagues
Beautiful and qualitative products

Cons

Long working hours
No private life- you have no time for that
You will never manage to do all your tasks

Advice to Senior Management

To take into account that executive and operational works take much more time than geting ideas and developing the strategy. And this is not the case of time management!

Pros

The company cosmetics discounts are good.

Cons

Very Political
Very Disorganized
Low Pay
Have way too many meetings about nothing.
Procedures change on a weekly basis.
Too top heavy with Management.
Management is lazy and never around because they are in so many meetings.
Management is cold and unresponsive to longtime employees suggestions.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop putting the wrong people in management positions. Some of these managers don't have the background experience/education to even be running their departments.

Pros

Very dynamic and fun company to work for. Lots of young people and plenty of space to grow if you play your cards right.

Cons

A bit un organized. You need a few years of seniority to get managements attention.

Advice to Senior Management

Do not try to implement the french culture all over the world. Try to adopt to local culture instead.

Pros

L'Oreal is a diversified company, creativity and actively learning are really appreciated here. Doing work about the cosmetics for the beauty will be really fantastic.

Cons

The structure and the system of the company is a little bit messy. The regulations are not so clear and performed.

Advice to Senior Management

Please pay more attention to the management trainee program, appreciating the different employee's capability and taking advantage of them. Higher the importance of the rules.

Pros

International recognized company
Top quality products and brands portfolio
Diverse and multicultural professional environment
Permanent professional challenge

Cons

Top down and politics prevail at all time
Excessive time investment asked without compensation
Low salaries and compensations compared to market
No clear strategic long term vision
Carreer development and talent retention policies unexistent

Advice to Senior Management

Marketing and sales are core business, but other functions are life-support. Stop under investing in people

Pros

- Lotsa opportunities whether you wanna move up or across the brands
 - Friendly and helpful colleagues
 - Tons of trainings and benefits available (if you're free enough to enjoy them, it's there!)

Cons

- Work work work... And very manual work...
 - Lotsa carrying, lifting, clearing because of messy storage areas!
 - Limited and pathetic storage of GWPs, Uniforms, Docs etc. Most of the time are spent in thinking how to dispose, hide or disperse them to outlets...
 - Competitive environment, more so when you're in the sales team.
 - Lotsa yellings from sales and it's considered normal. Managers shouting at staff on the phone happens everyday.

Advice to Senior Management

Think about why is there a higher turnover for certain brands, didn't it came across your mind that empty yelling are useless and people are more resistant to change when they're being yelled at. (for nothing and fr not understanding the reasons behind the yelling...)

Pros

- real responsibility from day 1
- interesting field of work, diverse social events with colleagues and customers
- very educational for recent graduates
- appreciated by future employers
- profit sharing system

Cons

- poor balance between professional and personal life
- below-average salaries
- high turnover of staff
- no compensation for extra hours
- lack of respect toward young professionals by the company (indicating there's always a line of candidates willing to do your job at the threshold of the company)

Advice to Senior Management

- More timely communication to employees to improve efficiency.

Pros

Lots of opportunities.
Fantastic brands and products in a variety of markets.
Constantly increasing responsibilities.
Multinational environment.

Cons

Paris dictates, and the world follows.
Management can lack people skills.
Poor work/life balance.
Lack of positive feedback from managers.
Hope you speak french...

Advice to Senior Management

To make this a truly multinational enterprise, find leaders that come from places other than France.
Encourage collaboration and teamwork.
Give praise when it is deserved.

Pros

the BEST place to start for the recent graduates (or even last year students) but those experienced ones - look somewhere else

Cons

very low compensation level and other benefits comparing to the market, no opportunities to grow for the locals (the talented ones are squeezed out but the expacts whose knowledge and willingness to share experience and learn new is almost next to nothing) , very high expat level (ca.15%) while the other market rivals have 3-5 expats only. office space is [dis]organized in not ergonomic way and on top of all above - infamous French arrogance

Advice to Senior Management

invest more in your employees, the brands value is nothing in the country where they're not so known to the consumers but employees who are satisfied with their professional aspirations and adequate compensation can make miracles. and higher the most brilliant ones (not the cheapest ones as now!)

Pros

Involving, passionate environment, great brands, motivated people, ambitious, real opportunities, you can make things happen & make a difference

Cons

challenging, little structured feedback or recommendations / mentoring, need to be self-decoder to succeed

Advice to Senior Management

More walk the talk is necessary