Olam Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Olam full-time for more than a year

Pros – Scope for lots of initiative, excellent learning opportunity

Cons – Poor work life balance, unless shown initiative can get stuck in doing the same thing

Advice to Senior Management – NIL

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

Former Employee – worked at Olam full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great general management experience. Large scope of responsibilities from day 1. You see the impact that you make on the business very clearly.

Cons – Tough location to work in. You have to grind in out in the tough location to get ahead in the company

Advice to Senior Management – Need to figure out a way to balance the comp and benefits better. Higher differentiation for employees in tough locations.

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

Former Employee – worked at Olam full-time for more than a year

Pros – Entrepreneurial culture
Freedom to play with new ideas

Cons – No Value for talent
Very high difference between salary structure for people at same levels depending on management's view of your performance
Penny pinching in India office especially for programs related to employee growth
Unethical business practices and accounting play
Huge difference between promised bonuses and actuals. Largest share of pie kept at the senior management level (least productive level) and the actual work force gets a pittance.

Advice to Senior Management – Salaries should be at par for all employees at the Fixed component level.
Value your word
Rise to the occasion
Contribute to team's performance instead of just cornering the bonus.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Olam full-time for more than a year

Pros – Salary is extremely competitive for expats

Cons – Company culture is not at all professional

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Olam full-time for more than a year

Pros – Independence to work , challenging environment

Cons – Processes not well established, highly people dependent organization,

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

Former Employee – worked at Olam full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Olam allows its managers to take large responsibilities at a very early stage. This allows exposure into running a P&L or a trading book at a very early stage in your career. You are also drafted into strategy teams that forces strategic thinking in a very early part of your career

Cons – Their systems and processes both for the business and people leave a lot to be desired. The place is still run with a large emphasis on individuals and their ability to "get thing done" rather than processes that allow seamless transactions

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Olam full-time for more than a year

Pros – Very knowledegable and humble top management, good growth strategy, great approach to business development

Cons – compensation is on the lower side, environment can become very stressful in tough times. the culture is not uniform across products, so what produt you work in decides if you like it or not

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

Former Employee – worked at Olam full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Independence because of working in Africa. Money and perks are good compared to India. Exposure to general management is faster

Cons – they have a tendency to control personal life choices, a company that micro manages managers and expects every manager to do the same, the culture is quite a typical either you fit in or you don't ..

Advice to Senior Management – Diversity is not a bad thing, and a lot of people with one way of thinking leads to a downfall.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Olam full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Achievement
1 Fiber optical
2 Internet connections in remote locations
3 Installing DHCP,DNS and File server
4 Building up new venders
5 Building up IT
6 Centralized call logging system for users
7 Sop
8 Start the team with 3 Engineers and now the team is 8 Engineers
9 In every guest house internet connection
10 Fortinet 1000c firewall
11 System X 3650M3 servers

Cons – Good and shares all there experience
Putting me in correct direction
Encouragement for me
My team always stands with me

Current Employee – been working at Olam full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Ambitious, Agressive & Entreprenual are probably the best works to describe the company. Takes care of its employees.

Cons – Difficult to maintain a personal life and work balance.

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