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US - All Cities"Pretty good with work/life balance" (in 23 reviews)
"Good Benefits and Pay and postive social impact" (in 22 reviews)
"Mobility, Work-life balance as well" (in 14 reviews)
"Company tends to make major changes in upper management very often" (in 14 reviews)
I have been working at Essilor full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Dynamic atmosphere
Good work life balance
Strong core team with great personalities
Several opportunities for advancement
Good benefits
Cons
Constantly changing environment presents difficulties prioritizing tasks
I have been working at Essilor full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Supportive, collaborative, purpose-driven culture. People are very friendly and see the value in building strong relationships. Lots of opportunity to make a difference!
Cons
Complexity in the business makes things difficult at times. Streamlining needed. Good news is the culture is open to new ideas.
Advice to Management
Some things need to be centralized to improve efficiency. Doesn’t mean we will lose our entrepreneurial spirit. We can find the right balance.
I worked at Essilor full-time (More than 10 years)
Pros
The benefits, including vacation were good. 401k was better than most.
Cons
Pay & the way employees get treated. Not the best.
Advice to Management
To treat employees as more than just a number.
I have been working at Essilor full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
*Plenty of room for growth
*Locations all over the world
*Works with my drilling schedule for the National Guard
*Having holidays off and being paid for them
*Vacation and PTO time are alright
Cons
*Needs to work better towards hearing from their employees.
Advice to Management
Business is like a Tripod. You have to have three things to run a successful company. Those items are product or service rendered, employees and satisfied customers. Without either one you will not have a successful company in which the other ends of the tripod will collapse.
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I worked at Essilor full-time (More than 10 years)
Pros
Salary
Medical, Dental, Vision
retirement plan
Stock Ownership
Vision Foundation
Cons
Non US Company
Preferential to French Management
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I worked at Essilor full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Work Life Balance is good in the senior levels
Cons
At the Executive level, Old Guard stands guard to protect old systems and broken processes. Very few new ideas are implemented despite constant chatter.
Nasty politics mean new people are only tolerated if they don't rock the boat. Leadership pays lip service to change management yet retain the very people in the same roles for over 10 years, except in Sales & Marketing!
Advice to Management
You are making enough money to risk changing the old guard in key positions - so that you can actually make the changes you talk about and allow professional growth for qualified employees.
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I worked at Essilor full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Good and flexible Managers
Great place to learn
Awesome place to start your career
Cons
Poor pay / hike
Poor bonuses
Slow paced and Not technology driven
Old school
Not much scope for growth if you are mid level or experienced.
Lot of cases, you have less competent employees who keep switching from one department to another. These fail to prove their caliber in the new role and then end up switching within role just to survive. Needless to say it is not because they are talented it is just because they cannot find any other job.
Advice to Management
Please do check online portals to see how other companies pay their employees. Thank you and other buttery compliments alone does not help to retain talented employees. You need to pay your employees well to be able to retain quality talent.
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I worked at Essilor full-time (More than a year)
Pros
- Really smart people in the marketing department
- Some managers/directors are wonderful people to work with
- Very international and diverse group of people
- Cutting edge, innovative products that are the leaders in the ophthalmic lens industry
- Rotational program within marketing department affords young marketing managers to get a good variety of experiences
Cons
- Management is aloof
- Department culture is very cynical
- Toxic personalities/management styles are tolerated and often promoted
- Training and coaching is minimal
- Leaders take a "sink or swim" approach to managing their employees
- VERY meeting heavy organization
- There are often too many cooks in the kitchen on projects
- Ambiguity abounds
- Inflexible work hours
Advice to Management
Keep recruiting really smart people. You do that really well. However, you need to root out the toxic personalities from top to bottom. Competency should not excuse poor people skills. You will continue to lose good people because you continue to tolerate and promote managers who are aloof jerks.
I have been working at Essilor full-time (More than a year)
Pros
You are not micro managed
Cons
I do not have any cons
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I worked at Essilor full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Good co workers
Good benefits
Cons
Understaffed
Not enough trainers
Last minute mandatory overtime
Contant 10 hour days 5 days a week, every other saturday
Constantly have to keep track of your surroundings or you'll be trampled by other peoples' carts
Advice to Management
Where to begin?
Get more trainers, make sure they're all on the same page
3rd shift trainers were amazing, they constantly had to fix issues from 1st and 2nd shift
Have patience with employees getting their numbers up
When you're bringing in 10+ workers a day its hard to learn when no ones there to help you and you're stuck helping the recruits and ruining your numbers
RESPECT your workers, you need us more than we need you. The pay is not that great compared to how hard you want us to work, our job is never secure, one bad week and we are gone.
Employment only cares about temporary workers. If your numbers aren't where they want them in the first 4 weeks you're fired.
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