L'Oreal Employer Reviews

L'oreal is a great place to work with great benefits, flexible working arrangements, a great culture, and exciting positions.

However, dont expect to be promoted unless you are either French or willing to stab your coworkers in the back to take more credit than you deserve...

I would not recommend to anyone to join this company if you value weekends, evenings and nights. The manufacturing environment is highly stressful with very long hours. Management was incompetent and rude in my case. Turnover is ridiculously high with many departments having all new people fresh out of college.

Some other locations have decent managers – more... and better work-life balance, but it really is hit or miss.

In terms of career growth there is not a good succession planning in place. Movements across division and functions are limited and as far as I have seen it is much more likely to be fired than to be promoted.

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I love this company because they gave me a chance to show my skills and hard work over the years. L'Oreal is a good company to work for and everyone here are team players.

If you aren't not in the business to work 75 hour weeks, yell as loud as possible at anyone possible, if you're not French you have no chance of being happy at L'Oreal. Management sucks, teammates suck, and HR is awful!

Lovely to work here. Gained invaluable amounts of knowledge about the luxury goods industry. Truly one of the best experiences of my life.

Great place to work just wish they had more positions available for a return as an intern.

Rated one of the best places to work in NJ.
Strong marketing group. Marketing driven company.

Screen calls, make travel reservations, order office supplies, trouble shoot office equipment. Most enjoyable part of the job is the people with whom I work. Hardest part of the job multi-tasking and being prepared for unexpected, urgent demands.

Review new, existing, and upcoming projects with engineers, and go over testing needed, issues, and report test results. Conduct testing using various equipment, that is in the Lab and write reports when testing is completed.

nice place to work people I work with are nice to work with.ALOT OF HOURS.no life family is missing me and missing family 12 hr days 5 days a week and at least 8 hrs on sat. wouldn't be to bad but at 8.50/hr not really worth it but no jobs out there so have to do what you got to do.

I found L'Oreal to be a fine and decent company to work for. I enjoyed being able to contribute via my normal duties and my that which contributed as a voluntary member of the various committees I was part of,

Pros
- High Levels of Responsibility given early
- High Budget Spend
- Some freedom to Try New Ideas
- People are generally intelligent, motivated and ambitious and fun

Cons
- Political
- Incredibly slow moving, decisions take a long time by which point the competition has already sped ahead
- Legal are ultra strict and inefficient, only accept paper – more... submissions
- Company is completely inefficient, repetitive reports, work which could be automated
- IT is shockingly bad. Internet down for half days at a time, months to resolve
- Email culture, cc everyone to cover your backside
- Senior Management are arrogant, false, pretend to care because they've been told to show more empathy
- Scores very low on internal worker survey vs UK average
- Meetings NEVER start on time, not uncommon for senior meetings to run over by 5,6 hours
- Late nights are inevitable as there simply aren't enough people to cover the workload
- Headcount is kept unbearably low, the very minimum to get the job barely done
- Due to such heavy work load many have checked out on stress leave
- As another poster said they think you'll never leave
- No salary bands are published, zero transparency from upper management ( this is starting to
change)
- HR have no succession planning or a very vague plan of you can be a General Manager within 5 years
- The place practically runs on Interns and Grads who are brought through the Management Trainee programme but are really a form of cheap labour and often take up positions that would be full time headcount in other firms

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• Investigated and updated activities on customer account.
• Responded and resolved questions and needs of customers in a timely, professional and courteous manner
• Evaluated performance and ensured that customer business needs were being met
• Provided client retention and satisfaction
• Presentated to client in a prompt, professional and friendly – more... manner
• Gathered information about the customer to place product and service orders
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wonderful job, great executive. enjoyed going into work every day. each day provided a new learning experience for which i am grateful. I am looking to accept a career that will be as fulfilling as this job was.

Too bad it all changed. I loved my career with L'Oreal and would have stayed forever but it has all been outsourced to Convergence and no longer offers the salaried positions in the field.

busy enviornment, keeps you on your toes and alert
working with computers. fast pace.

L'Oreal is a company that is greatly focused on individual responsibility and hence has a great environment of very motivated, young people with strong personalities who are responsible to chart their own careers within the company with their professional and networking skills.

The HR team is a constant support at L'Oreal and every employee has multiple – more... feedback and update sessions with the HR representatives. They know you just as well as your Managers and are personally involved in your career growth. – less

From the day I started to about the end of 2009 we went through 4-5 managers in my department. In other words when I was still with staffmark, every time we got a new I had to prove myself again and again, my weighing time was way above average They had me weighing, service work such as take trash out clean weighing utensils ect ect, and doing house – more... orders which we weighed for other plants for what we had they didn't have. – less

Bussy day.
Time management skills.
Management i same as any other company of that size in that industry. What is written and what is in practice are two differnet realities.
If you are dealing with beauty and retail and have a passion it is a good environment.

Team work is a big deal at L'Oreal. They are efficient and expect you to be the same. Everyone gives 110%, and it was an honor interning for them.