Delusional leadership and toxic culture - Anonymous employee L'Oréal Employee Review

1.0
Apr 18, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Find the amazing people who aren't 'L'Oréal' types. There are few, but hold on to them when you find them! They keep you sane. -

Cons

- The worst leadership team with unclear direction. They are aggressive and far from inspiring. - Toxic culture. Hilarious that rather than change the culture they just deny it and cover up the faults with dedicated weeks for D&I, leadership etc. Yet they don't implement these core principles. - Motivation is based on fear rather than ambition. You can feel the tension in meetings. - Hierarchal and political. Be prepared to play the game. - Disrespectful and nasty employees - Unforgiving and do not allow for mistakes - Managers are clueless about managing. They need to be trained to support - Thankless job - There's always someone looking to throw you under a bus - Bullying culture - It's not about quality, It's about making things look pretty and getting ahead

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