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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3.0
Oct 3, 2016

Good Company Questionable Employer

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good benefits, competitive salary, innovative company, heavy focus on brand recommendation. Large focus on shareholder return. Ethics and compliance always in the forefront.

Cons

Heavy focus on outsourcing certain business areas. If you are in HR, Marketing, Sales or Information Tecnology, look elsewhere for employment. Poor marketing strategies and insufficient funding. The last few years they are outsourcing external business units finance and customer service to Mexico. Global IT is primarily resourced through India and Mexico and local US employees have been displaced.

4.0
Jan 27, 2016

Hard work doesn't always pay off

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company as a whole is stable and in today's economy it's comforting to know they won't be going bankrupt any time soon. The benefits can't be beat. Medical, dental, retirement. tuition reimbursement.

Cons

The harder you work the harder you are expected to work by upper management. Even when you are stretched so thin you don't have time for even one more task, they pile it on knowing that somehow, some way the most dedicated people will get it done even if that means working when you get home until 2:00 AM. It seems the ones that barely get by are the ones that get the most support and those are the ones that are usually moved up to better positions within the company. If you are not one chosen to "Fast Track" and you are doing a good job at your current position that will be your only position. Ability is not a factor in choosing a candidate for an open position. Most of the time there is already a candidate identified prior to a position being posted but the company policy is to post an opening for 2 weeks before naming the candidate that is awarded the position. There was a time when Colgate would strive to be what they considered the "Best Place to Work" but I'm not sure what happened to that philosophy or from what pool of people they are surveying to determine if they are meeting that expectation.

3.0
Mar 28, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits, competitive salary, global mobility if that is what you're looking for. Flexible time off and a decent bonus structure if you can make it to EICP.

Cons

Bureaucracy at its prime. Put your best lips on cause if your not kissing up, you might as well forget that next promotion. This is a marketing company, everything else is currently being outsourced to India in order to fund their growth because they can't seem to get their cost structure right. Severe spending inefficiencies in capex. New restructuring is so uprooting it is leaving loose ends.

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