Alcon reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(2,529 total reviews)
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David J Endicott

76% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Alcon has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,529 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Alcon employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Farmacéutica y biotecnología industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Nov 8, 2020

Look Elsewhere

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Pros

Compensation is decent as are benefits (not including vacation time which is not great)

Cons

Management is all over the place where each part of the country is run differently. They pressured workers to go back to work during this Covid period and already scheduled a LIVE meeting for January despite risks of employees. Company switched to FTO from PTO and advertised it as flexible yet when you ask for time off your manager belittles you and as a result forces you to take your own time when you want to. Which leads to last point. Even when you are doing great, they don't let you be your own sales person and structure your days or weeks as you see fit. VERY rigid M - F 8 - 5 better do it, better log in your 7,5 calls, better do your ridiculous multiple reports per week, better not use your car for personal time, better be a robot. RIDICULOUS. And when you leave they do not care AT ALL. If you want to get away from manager GOOD LUCK. Transferring to new position nearly impossible.

3.0
Aug 11, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Pay, benefits, opportunities, and some small areas with great leaders and teams. It looks like the CEO and senior leadership has the right idea and is making good changes, but manufacturing seems to be the slowest area to see any positive changes.

Cons

In general it is an old school buddy-buddy management style. Little to no candid feedback, HR styles from the 80's. Yet at the same time very fearful of lawsuits. So bad people are just moved around with no development and problems just mount on problems. Would be an awesome place if they could figure out how to get rid of problem people, and really invest in developing some modern leadership styles. Talking mainly about MTO.

1.0
Aug 8, 2019

Toxic Work Environment

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Used to be part of Novartis Tech Ops (NTO) - Can leverage on the scale and financial backing from NTO - Is an aseptic Pharma plant

Cons

- Toxic co-workers who go all out to backstab and set colleagues up - Useless and clueless site leadership team who are so disconnected with the ground - “Yes-men” and people who suck up to leadership team are survivors here - Join them if you enjoy working in environment where you have to constantly watch you back from backstabbing

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