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Eric Leonard
15 Ratings
Pros
Good work/life balance ; Always acquiring business (in 15 reviews)
Good Benefits and good team to work with (in 16 reviews)
Cons
no carreer growth, no work life balance (in 13 reviews)
Upper management is rarely onsite to observe this abuse (in 13 reviews)
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"Great place to grow your career and yourself."
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Essilor full-time (More than 8 years)
Pros
Great people to work with, management helps develop your skills so that you can grow your career. There is a common goal of helping people see better which strengthens our employee relationships. It's very rewarding knowing that we make products that improves our customer's lives.
Cons
It's a big company that is sometimes slow and resistant to change but they are getting better. Communication between divisions could be better.
Advice to Management
Be open to new ideas.
Essilor 2017-09-05 10:14 PDT Helpful (12)
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"Layoffs today"
StarStarStarStarStarDisapproves of CEOI have been working at Essilor full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Great company. Stock does really well. Love the people. Paid well.
Cons
Essilor of America is doing a large layoff this morning of only American employees. No French expats were terminated because Essilor is French owned. Most all of the layoffs are long term, upper level and older aged employees.
Essilor 2017-09-28 07:47 PDT![Essilor Logo]()
"Sales"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Essilor full-time (More than 10 years)
Pros
Good pay and product quality
Cons
Management new hires not understanding the industry
Essilor 2017-10-09 15:33 PDT![Essilor Logo]()
"Essilor is experiencing a culture change"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI have been working at Essilor full-time (More than 10 years)
Pros
Global leader in the optical industry.
Cons
Lack of executive leadership.
Advice to Management
Executive management needs to be able to make decisions and drive strategic direction.
Essilor 2017-10-09 20:01 PDTHelpful (2)
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"Nice Company !!"
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Doesn't RecommendI worked at Essilor full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Awesome company to work with and Very nice environment.
Cons
Work wise, every one concern about their survival,So within team no one reveal what they are doing for a long time or share anything work related . Managers are not communicative especially in IT. Due to lack of communication among group(s) any 2 minutes fix will take 2 weeks of time.
Advice to Management
Need to improve communication with knowledgeable supervisor or Manager.
Essilor 2017-09-30 11:21 PDT![Essilor Logo]()
"Culture went to crap, layoffs for people age 45+, corrupt Sales leaders in place making decisions"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Essilor full-time (More than 10 years)
Pros
Prior to 2012, this was a great place to work!
Cons
After 2012 it turned into a trainwreck
Advice to Management
Your business will suffer when you get rid of those individuals that care, have the expertise and history to move business forward. Problems began once you stopped supporting your salesfolks and putting in crappy PL people. Laying off tenured high performing professionals with a phone call - "Thank you for your service, cya" is completely appalling! Saddens me to hear what has become of the once great Essilor Labs. HR allowing discrimination to occur (age & origin) and then putting in a Diversity figure head to make it appear that they are doing things on the up-&-up. As for getting awards or mentions on "best places to work" or glassdoor ratings only tell me you're sourcing from your brand new employees that seem to cost you lower money or like you did with stealing data through bots from competitors...I wouldn't put it past these people that their influencing their employer brand unethically.
Sales Leadership & HR: What happened to your ethics?
So many times, turning a blind eye on fraud and employees who steal thousands to millions from the company and then scrape those people who had the best interest for the business and the customers.
Any positive ratings I call FAKE RATINGS/FAKE NEWS!Essilor 2017-10-13 10:07 PDT![Essilor Logo]()
"Document everything"
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Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Essilor full-time (More than 10 years)
Pros
Essilor has, by far, superior product along with great support materials and training.
Cons
If someone in Dallas decides they don't like you, then you are done. It is very important to keep documentation with this group on any event during your tenure. Honesty is not the best policy with administrative decisions at Essilor.
Advice to Management
As a general rule at Essilor, if you accept a position that includes the letters "V P" then you have just become a short timer.
Essilor 2017-09-13 10:31 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Supplier Relationship Manager"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Essilor full-time (More than 10 years)
Pros
Leader in Optical Industry, Great Mission: "Improving life by improving sight", Clear Vision and Strategy, Innovative, Global footprint, Shareholder plan, agreement with Luxottica on the horizon
Cons
Complexity or organization and commercial programs, with IT systems that are not designed for this level of complexity. E.g. reporting.
Advice to Management
Improve IT structure to meet complexity.
Essilor 2017-08-24 10:31 PDT![Essilor Logo]()
"More pay"
StarStarStarStarStarI have been working at Essilor full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
The position is Mon-Fri.
Cons
The pay is not all that great for the amount of work and responsibilities.
Advice to Management
Quit micro-managing and looking for fault in your employees.
Essilor 2017-09-11 08:42 PDTHelpful (4)
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"Massive Layoffs Today"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Essilor full-time
Pros
People that weren't in management are great.
Cons
- Executive team vision and strategy only based on the good old boy/girl network
- Appearance of diversity of executive ranks, just that
- Only older employees laid off. Not sure how they got away with this one. Excuse was that position are being eliminated, not performance. How is it that only older employees positions were eliminated?
- Most expanded positions going to white males. Or younger white females.Advice to Management
None. You decided that we held no value to you.
Essilor 2017-09-28 18:43 PDT
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