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      Colgate-Palmolive

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      Colgate-Palmolive reviews

      4.1

      81% would recommend to a friend

      (2,482 total reviews)
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      Noel Wallace

      86% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Senior management

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      Colgate-Palmolive has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,482 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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      2K reviews
      1.0
      Oct 19, 2011

      When did I become Dilbert?

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Good place to gain international exposure as 80% (and rising agressively) of business is outside US Great place for women and minorities. If you have a good manager, you can obtain interesting projects.

      Cons

      Steadily reducing benefits and training opportunites for years. Heavily offshoring both development and manufacturing. HR is completely unresponsive to employees and applicants, a blessing since their information often conflicts. Excuses given for arbitrarily promoting or not promoting personnel border on insanity. Though they preach "Managing with Respect", managers can give poor reviews without any explanation of reasons to employees with great long term records.

      1.0
      Oct 16, 2011

      Very political environment. Don't get thrown under the bus!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Opportunity to work abroad, Salary/benefits

      Cons

      The company claims to be a caring company. It is, if you play the right political games and are in the "in" crowd. Don't complain about anything,or you will be treated as a second class citizen, and you will find yourself at the bottom of the pile when the far and few between promos come around. Company does a good job of bait and switch. Great compensation, but little of anything else UNLESS you are one of the chosen ones. Leaders with the most obnoxious management styles are rewarded. Those who do the right thing are NOT appreciated. Company is extremely risk averse and relies on it's signature brand to keep it going. They are definitely followers rather than leaders. I would not recommend working at Colgate unless you have a kiss ass mentality and enjoy stepping on others to make yourself look good. It was a very disappointing and unrewarding experience. Definitely glad I left.

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