L'Oreal

- No work-life balance
- True French culture; to survive you must be like a lizard and adapt your colors to the environment. In my past experience with L'Oreal; one of my bosses showed me his "L'Oreal competency" through the ability to deliver 5 different tones of anwsers for 1 question (depend on the receiver)! Amazing! Then he can survive and ladder himself to the management level!
- What you could get from here is a salary above market everage + hypertention as a plus bonus.
- Clouded by office politics & backstabbing culture .. while working; you need to watch out behind you...
- Business process is very bad (because they focus only sales/marketing/botton line profit) + poor HRM = The Sinking Titanic!

By far, the most insane, dilusional, negative, aggravating, life-sucking place I've ever worked. I've never seen it where the knowledgable people were made second class to the clueless. They put more stock in knowing their system than knowing your trade. The morale is rock-bottom and the management is filled with backstabbers that are all self-serving. The successful managers survive by always staying in the middle of the road and never making a decision on their own. If a manager is made to be put in the slightest amount of negative light, they make sure they throw someone else under the bus. Also, if you're not French, forget it. All the senior positions are more and more being filled by French transfers that get to pocket their salaries and live off a car, house, and monthly allowances for food all paid for by the company. Americans are second class there and they never want to see any innovation out of the US. The raises are pitiful and the promotion raises are an embarassment. If you aspire to be a mindless drone, this is the place for you. I give it a D-

If you can remember who invented the guillotine then you know what the work environment is like at L’Oreal. The key point for this job is to understand there are two job descriptioins for non-French employees. You are either irrelevant or incompetent; you really have to work hard to maintain the irrelevant title. If you are unlucky enough to work yourself into the incompetent job description then you are in line for the very sharp knife.

On the positive side, this company has a great benefit program and they have a really nice air freshener in the bathrooms.

There is a popular saying at L'Oreal... I HATE MY JOB! This company is by the far the worst company I have worked for. Employee moral is unbelievable low. If you are not French, you can forget about moving ahead in the company.

This company has the worst corporate culture. As you can imagine... a French beauty company based in NYC. Couldn't get any worse.

Hours are long and the attitude and backstabbing is thick! The only benefits of working at L'Oreal are the free products, better-than-industry-average pay and good benefits.

Senior managers have zero management skill. They are only looking after themselves and not interested in grooming subordinates. Lower level employees are treated like garbage.

Since the company is mostly women and gay men (at the lower levels), there is a lot of catfighting and backstabbing. Don't trust anyone, is another motto.