Essilor reviews

Lack of direction and leadership. Essilor keeps expanding by acquiring smaller companies but they don't have a strategy for assimilating these companies beyond rolling their revenues into the corporate pie. The US executive team is unwilling to do anything that they haven't done before and have a difficult time giving clear direction back to Paris or out to the branch offices. If you are a even a moderate risk taker, this company will drive you crazy.

We as analysts drove the ideas and implementation but rarely got the credit we deserved. Most executives can't read financial statements and thus can't manage to one. I ended up giving free accounting and finance classes to those paid much better than I was both in field and in Dallas. Loyalty and opportunites seem to be wth same people: those who grew up in optics, those whose families are tied to optics and those who never off up original or new ideas.