Unilever reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(11,371 total reviews)

Hein Schumacher

65% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Unilever has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 11,371 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Unilever 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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11K reviews
5.0
Jul 22, 2016

Trainee

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits, competitive salary, challenge work, growing opportunities, out of the box thinking, entrepreneurial mindset

Cons

No cons during my experience

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1.0
Apr 13, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Wide array of work to develop your skills - health benefits

Cons

- Rampant nepotism as it relates to promotions & “moving up the ladder” - bad/inappropriate behavior from leaders/employees is ignored & brushed under the rug (demeaning comments, yelling, borderline bullying) - leadership team has absolutely no self awareness or even the baseline of what it takes to be effective leaders - lack of integrity with career development opportunities— your merit means nothing if you’re not liked by all of leadership - Hypocrisy, bias & lack of logic in key decision making - “Growth opportunities” are a mask for saving a buck to not backfill critical roles and dump onto existing employees who are rockstars, without any reward, leading to burnout - Preach about wanting “disturbers to shake things up & think different” but reprimand them when they do - leadership team promoting wellness & career development with no authentic-ness behind it, just to check a box - High turnover rates, especially with POC is ignored

3.0
Jul 31, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Company truly cares about making a positive impact on the world * Top level leadership appears to truly care about employees * Great brands to work on * Work/life balance and WFH flexibility (even pre-COVID) * Good benefits (~5 months maternity) * Good balance of team collaboration and individual self-managed work * Great experience/never gets boring, as you are encouraged to switch roles every 2 years * Handling COVID response fairly well and understanding of employees' home situations (have been highly communicative)

Cons

* Titles not aligned to competitors in the industry (i.e. Assoc. Managers at Unilever could be Sr. Managers or Directors elsewhere) * Next to impossible to get promoted (at all levels). Promotions within departments are based on "who's next on the list," i.e. who has been there the longest, rather than who's performance and total experience (including outside Unilever) best prepares them for a promotion. * Middle management (Directors) often have little to no people-management experience and are not good at managing teams * Work experience outside of UL doesn't count/doesn't matter since people often stay here for so long * Lots of top-down micromanagement/lack of trust in teams to make decisions

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