Essilor reviews

3.5

69% would recommend to a friend

(783 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 783 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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783 reviews
1.0
May 2, 2019

Avoid

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nothing. The company is far from what it use to be.

Cons

Nothing. After many yrs of hard work and loyalty, received the boot when company had a massive layoff. Select people were given positions in other departments, and for others it was a flat out no and no help even to transition to a sister lab with open positions. Seems the company was more interested in saving a dime by axing long term employees with benefits to turn around and hire a bunch of minimum wage no benefit temps. They did this about a month after the layoff. To be given any opportunity here past entry level, you needed to be 1. a direct line of gossip for the lab manager, 2. related to the lab manager or one of her coveted buddies, or 3. fooling around with the right person. Many complaints to HR fell on deaf ears because why you ask...most of the old timers have worked together for years and cover each other’s butts. There is a lot of favoritism and sexual harassment in the culture here. For a long term employee the pay and benefits were good, but the company changed and paying for quality was no longer important.

1.0
Jun 5, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Compensation. Self rewarding industry. Nice people. Great sales consultants. Market share. Stock options. 401k. Eyewear. Operations. Coverage. Notoriety. Visibility. Status

Cons

Work life balance. Culture of "more". Bandwidth. Leadership. Support. Culture. People. Labs. Marketing. HR. Senior Leadership. IT. Finance. Strategic Accounts

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