Essilor Reviews

Pros

Dynamic atmosphere
Good work life balance
Strong core team with great personalities
Several opportunities for advancement
Good benefits

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!

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.

Pros

Good and flexible Managers
Great place to learn
Awesome place to start your career

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.

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

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.

Pros

You are not micro managed

Pros

Good co workers
Good benefits

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.

Pros

They hire anyone experinced or not

Advice to Management

Actually take a management class. Stop promoting people who dont know how to lead or be a supervisor. Be strick across the board or not at all. Favoritism is not a management tool .

Pros

Flexible Hours
Great people in immediate team

Advice to Management

Pay more - you do not invest in people. We complete at least 3 surveys a year and nothing changes. The people in management should find another line of work. This company is the worst about playing the blame game instead of addressing and fixing any issues. The work environment is so hostile that you dread going in every day.

Pros

There is as much job mobility in Essilor as you want. If you have the drive to grow and make connections, you can go anywhere and do anything in this company.

The culture in the Dallas HQ is very friendly. Everyone is kind and outgoing, the workday is usually very pleasant.

The benefits seem to be good, 401k matching is stellar.

Very stable company (for the most part)

Advice to Management

Focus on keeping good talent: pay people a fair wage for the role they are playing in the organization. Pay for the certifications and education they need to be better

Pros

Profitable company as it is pretty much a monopoly in the lens manufacturing industry. Good roles and growth in Marketing Department (only).

Advice to Management

Breakup the no-change party and bring in new people who are empowered to implement change, rather than reshuffle the same old folks.