L'Oréal Reviews

Pros

Autonomy, professionals, driven, challenges and fun

Cons

It is alot of work

Pros

Not a rigid company offering to grow your carreer as you conduct it allowing you to move to other countries while staying in the group.

Cons

Intense work environment requesting lots of autonomy.

Pros

50% off products Downtown office location

Cons

Think of a private highschool full of egotistic kids with parents who live for reputation & step over real and humble people to fulfill their hidden lack of self-esteem. That should give you a pretty accurate picture of what it's like to work at L’Oreal Canada. Ego + politics + gossip = L’Oreal Canada. Level of management does not equal competence, it's a competition of how two faced and manipulative... you are to stay long enough by stepping on others. People only caring to make things look good, and don't know how to value the work itself. You will be extremely successful at. if you know how to unethically sugar coat things, trick and use people to your advantage, and have no basic morals. They have all these programs and HR movements to be more "transparent" and "ethical", but it's all for the show since they are masters at creating the brand for themselves. Of course there's nice people in upper management, but not enough to fight against the naughty. The naughty also know how to play their game so they work around those that could harm them. Working here being forced to play the game to succeed is really not worth it. They have by far the highest turnover rate in the industry. There's people emptying desks and leaving good-bye emails every week. The people who stay call them quitters to justify the game they play and fuel their ego. People that have left during my experience, are the most talented and intelligent people I've yet to met, who know their times' worth and are mature enough to recognize the right and wrong.

Advice to Management

Stop marketing “ethics” to employees. Take accountability and action when employees report unethical practices instead of silencing them down by threatening how speaking up will negatively impact employee’s career. Stop finding meaning of your life at workplace and fuel ego by stepping on others. Stop focusing on what’s going to make you shine and do good work with integrity.

Pros

Flexible hours, super open to innovate and new ideas, a lot of learning

Cons

Long hours + a lot of performance pressures

Pros

- free makeup (or 50% off) - you meet some incredibly smart people

Cons

- you meet some incredibly ignorant people - very French culture that is not inviting or collaborative

Pros

Opportunity to move up within company, good bonusses

Cons

Low wages and no benefits offered

Pros

Great opportunity to learn the "metier". They support your development and coaching. A lot of training is offered depending of your seniority and your role.

Cons

Work/Life balance, the company do encourage healthy work life balance, but the reality is most of the time your direct manager expect you to work late nights and weekends on top of 40hrs + at the office

Pros

Flexible, good benefits, discount on products

Cons

Lack of recognition, growth opportunities, lots of turnover