Colgate-Palmolive reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(2,481 total reviews)
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Noel Wallace

86% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Colgate-Palmolive has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,481 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Colgate-Palmolive employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Aug 26, 2015

Marketing

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

summer fridays, work smart program

Cons

company has not evolved with today's economy, cookie cutter mediocre employees in order to maintain culture, extremely political and hierarchical that you waste more time networking / sucking up to people and doing coffee chats than doing your work, HR has way too much power here and does not plan next roles timely, promotions are extremely slow, vacation days are limited, very few great managers, not built for today's generation so would not advise anyone under the age of 40 to join this organization, does not reward employees based on merit, employees are constantly looking for new jobs

2.0
Aug 8, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible Hours, Half Decent Pay, Some good people still left in the company

Cons

Gradually reducing employee rewards and benefits, the You Can Make a Difference Program is a Joke. HR is invisible (high turnover), Moving jobs overseas to very underqualified people. Lots of managerial infighting. Loosing its values "best place to work" is now "a place to work". Very political. Used to be awesome but now it's not, the place is becoming like a government job without the security. Small cubes, small work space, like rats in a wheel.

1.0
Jun 27, 2022

Honestly, don't do it right now.

Recommend
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Pros

There are some nice people in some departments and a few core brands that are solid.

Cons

For such an iconic company you would expect them to be a leader in innovation, packaging, etc. Unfortunately, this is not the case. They are so far behind in progress and process. Innovation is ultimately not supported with marketing dollars so it fails and internal processes do not allow for autonomy or agility. After the recent layoffs, new leadership and reorg, it just is not the place it used to be. There is not a people first culture and the politics rule the decisions. I would NOT recommend working here in current state.

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