Essilor reviews

3.5

69% would recommend to a friend

(784 total reviews)
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Francesco Milleri

68% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Essilor has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 784 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Essilor 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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784 reviews
3.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay is within industry Norms, opportunities to learn. The company is currently growing at a double digit rate which is great for a 1 Bil + sized company. Growth is being achieved by both organic and through acquisitions. This growth brings does bring about job opportunities. There is so much potential for this to be a great company.

Cons

Once hired into a position, you are expected not to leave that position. People within the company, once they have a perception of what you can offer, expect nothing else and want nothing else out of you. To achieve executive level here you must be French. The executive level world wide has less than 5% non French born executives. At Essilor of America the prevalent thought is to not be proactive about issues. Why pay today when you can pay tomorrow with penalties. You probably will not be there to deal with it anyway.

1.0
Dec 10, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Only their vision of improving lives by improving sights. Employees are mostly disengaged with the company but self driven

Cons

- HQ HR schemes to save money for the company at the expense of employee. (1) Recent reorganisation - disguise retrenchment/redundancy as something else to avoid paying packages (2) regularly use contractual termination to get rid of people without good reason - High tolerance of poor performing senior management. Many poor performing senior leaders even with almost full turnover of their teams within a short period are still surviving - different standards for different people resulting in unfair practices - extremely low transparency of information to staff resulting in high disengagement. They don’t trust their people

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