L'Oréal USA Reviews

Pros

Relationship with workers and engineers is very satisfying. Learned a lot from mangers and other workers who mostly do the hands-on activities.

Cons

The plant itself runs very slow and the operating system can be a drag. As a intern, the work place can be a bit boring.

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership at L'Oreal USA was tremendous. All the managers and other engineers were very helpful and beneficial to others. Thanks to you all.

Pros

Great name to have on resume. Get to learn a lot. Employees generally very nice.

Cons

No job security as a temp. When your contract is over and is not extended, they show you the door. Substantially lower pay than regular employees with the same job function. And it's hourly, so if you're sick or the company has a day off you get zip. Often assigned grunt work that the regular employees don't want or don't have time to do. No paid holidays, no retirement contributions, minimal health benefits. Not really "part of the team"; you just come in in the morning and they hand you something to do. Seems to be a general feeling of temps being in a lower class than regular employees. It's little things like not getting the free flu shots, no discount at the company store, and even the lab coats for the temps have a patch with the name of the staffing company instead of the L'Oreal logo.

Advice to Senior Management

If you're going to have temporary labor, at least try to make them feel like they're contributing to the mission.

Pros

Global company w great brands and diversity

Cons

constant cutting of headcount abd minimizing resources

Pros

Company store excellent coworkers Heath benifits

Cons

Management is too young turnover of management is a real problem

Advice to Senior Management

Promote from the ranks experiance is what counts

Pros

Good benefits, name brands easily recognized. Built invaluable connections with co-workers in the beauty industry. Great family of products.

Cons

All brands have become homogenized into "L'Oreal" no point of difference. Workers are expected to produce more with less. The culture is no longer one of elevating talent, but one of pointing fingers.

Advice to Senior Management

Being number one doesn't mean you can continue as you always have. You have to get out of NY and know what the competition is doing. The old business model needs refreshing.

Pros

learning large corporate culture
employee discounts and free goods on product
employees are friendly and enjoyable to work with
brand new office building
fast pace organization

Cons

They lack work/ life balance. Poor management in some departments with lack of insight into business knowledge, lack of direction and accountability. Fast turnaround in some departments and Sr Mgmt lacks ability to retain talented employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Sr Management needs to recognize employee efforts and utilize resources more efficiently. Create better processes so that projects are not suddenly dropped on employee last minute. Improve work/life balance.

Pros

Loreal USA is a luxury products company. They will train the qualified candidates in all aspects of their duty. You get free limited products twice a year and company store discounts of 50% off retail price products.
Great Health Care coverage.

Cons

Loreal USA has a great turn over Staff.
They do not provide a great retirement package to their staff only 401K and is only been recently for 5 years.

Pros

L'Oreal offers some exciting research opportunities and a fast paced environment. There are great career development courses offered to all levels. Some managers are truly excellent and you will learn a lot from working within this company.

Cons

R & I has a tendency to reward mediocrity and does not provide enough challenge to junior levels. In addition there is a strong culture of negative competition, in the spirit of "if I make you look bad, I'll get promoted". New management in the past couple of years is changing the culture but it is slow.

Advice to Senior Management

Reward excellence and provide more challenge, coaching and mentoring to junior levels. Create and engaged workforce. I believe Frederic Roze has excellent ideas that are not being implemented or supported within some areas of R&I.

Pros

international, innovative, creative, full of opportunities to explore all aspects of the beauty industry

Cons

complex hierarchy compared to other L'Oreal structures

Pros

Company Store benefits
Medical benefits superior and relatively low cost
At local level, mgt does try to create a positive culture and show appreciation

Cons

Too many HR layers yet everything is contracted to different companies
So many people recruiting, not done locally to meet mgt needs of the facility
Wellness benefits--hard to participate, too many caveats
Expectations to be in early/stay late
Over 40 yrs old, no room for advancement
Horrible IT systems because of our business processes
Any challenge to an idea is regarded as 'actively disengaged' so employees must just smile and agree to the company line.

Advice to Senior Management

Come and see how complicated and exception laden process is. See what it takes to create, receive and close a purchase order, track information or just try to get a printer at closer to your desk!

If you wonder why it takes so long to (fill in the blank to what you want), start looking at the details on why it takes so long. Remember,
*you lack standardized business processes
*if you do have standardized business process, pretty much every situation is an exception to the process
*each division does things differently and everyone has good reasons why we can't
*we have to always meet with everyone 3x's and publish meeting notes before we can officially formulate a plan to expedite your request
*we have to have some more mandatory team training so we all can learn to get along

I don't know what has happened to L'Oreal in the last 4 or 5 years. This is not the same company I remember.