Danone reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(2,219 total reviews)
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Antoine DE SAINT-AFFRIQUE

85% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Danone has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,219 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Danone employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Jan 29, 2018

Disappointing

Recommend
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Pros

Interesting work, good pay and benefits. Opportunities to travel. Inspiring mission and vision. Some really great colleagues if you look hard enough.

Cons

Culture great if you’re young, free and single - not good if you have any other commitments. Best to be French if you’re really ambitious. Likes to think it is a flexible place to work but they don’t seem to have any idea about how to analyse a job role resulting in most people working much longer hours than they are paid for. Some of the businesses are held together by interns and the level of expertise and maturity in business decisions are alarming. Quite surprised that more people don’t leave with stress - perhaps this is why the teams are quite young - older people burn out and leave. Generally there is quite an Inconsistency in the treatment of people - some people are looked after much better than others. Too many public school educated, white upper middle class people employed - not at all representative of the UK.

3.0
Jul 12, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Great PTO, Generous salary, inspired mission statement

Cons

Lacking employee support from HR partner. HR did not provide training for new roll. HR used the merger to fire older employees to hire under 35 yrs old. Very cutthroat and political in open office. Too many cliques. Bullying by manager and HR.

2.0
Mar 2, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Well Danone is a decent name to have on CV, no argument there. Lot of employees refer Danone India as a retirement company, and I agree with them totally, If one wants a low pressure job with hindu rate of growth then Danone India might be an ideal place for you. A big pro is you can get a jump of life-time while switching to Danone in India, there are multiple hires who got 2-3 level of designation jump along with up to 100% of increment. So be aware, open your mouth as wide as you can while negotiation. HR is struggling to get people on board, and I am not exaggerating a bit here.

Cons

Now cons, as you feel by now I am a little dissatisfied employee here and I make no other claim here. I joined Danone thinking of it as a high career growth company for a talented marketer (My previous career record did hint that I am :D), but it is not. Marketing role's significance is almost close to zero here. Finance decides even tiniest of the marketing initiatives, Medical, Legal, Regulatory decide what communication you can roll out, Operations decide what new product you can launch...So the nutshell you are a peon running from door to door to seek everyone's approval. At last place is full of mediocre people and also run by them, so no scope for top performers, top institute guys (Don't think you will make a cut among mediocres, we few did and have failed). Absolute no for FMCG guys, its a doctor business. Danone dairy , which is an fmcg setup, is too small to join in for a core FMCG person unless you are paid twice of your current pay.

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