Danone Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Danone full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Dynamic company, global but also local, health-oriented, good products, enthousiastic people, good school

Cons – Work-life balance, lack of consistency in strategy and plans, highly opportunistic approach

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – culture products people time pressure atmosphere freebies

Cons – salary is under average industry by a cool 10%...

Advice to Senior Management – raise the salary!

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

Former Employee – worked at Danone full-time

Pros – Great company culture, interesting work, nice collegues.

Cons – HR people are not so nice, be ready to be overworked for no real compensation.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – its no 1 dairy plant in World

Cons – Operation Excellence planning not good.

Advice to Senior Management – Improve Operation Excellence planning For company business.

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

Current Employee – been working at Danone full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great people, great benefits. Free yoghurt & water at work. You get to own your projects and minimum interference is there from your seniors (providing you are doing a good job). Senior management is amazing, they take care of employees, held a lot of events. Conferences all over the world.

Cons – The cash package is not be in line with other companies of similar size. Hard to progress further (in IT atleast) as people tend to stick to their positions.

Advice to Senior Management – Can't say much really, they are awesome! Better than the CEOs of other companies who are solely interested in making bucks for themselves. Say Hi5 to the executives of Danone who are genuinly interested in the people who work for them.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Danone full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – - Genuine interest in its people
- Commitment to healthier consumer solutions
- Tend to see the slightly longer term horizon
- Can do culture for a largish company (ie fail or succeed fast)
- Some genuinely visionary senior management
- Employees get discounts on brands!

Cons – - Still very franco-centric
- Silly seniority rules based on turn over of area of responsibility - makes it hard to get good people for new ventures or start up phase businesses
- HR Banding system too limiting
- Too Euro-centric still
- Does not have real plan for next generation of healthy but enjoyable products
- Does not really know what to do with its Nutricia business

Advice to Senior Management – Think more vertically in its product development (from getting well to staying well) - inject some genuine cross cultural leadership at the more senior levels. More agile HR policies.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Danone full-time

Pros – enthusiastic environment, equal opportunities employment, development programs, satisfying compensations, good HR system.

Cons – it needs more teamwork, and more motivation to the employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Train , develope, motivate and retain your employees.

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

Current Employee – been working at Danone full-time

Pros – - great culture
- general positive climate
- exposure to transversal projects
- transparency
- career opportunities
- individual development plans

Cons – - some ambiguity due to informal way of working
- general tendency to have negative competitivity between people that want to proove they are the best
- to much show-off in a continuous strugle for visibility and success
- compensations could be better
- some work-load issues (only some departments or functions)
- some personnel turn-over issues that hurts the image

Advice to Senior Management – - to take into consideration the Cons

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Danone full-time for less than a year

Pros – Working Environment is good since the people is young and with energy

Cons – Opportunities are given to people sent from Corporate

Advice to Senior Management – Look to talent in the host country

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Danone full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – World Wide presence with Leadership In its fields of Baby nutrition.

Cons – Working field is awesome,till now seen nothing.

Advice to Senior Management – Nothing.

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