Colgate-Palmolive reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(2,483 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 2,483 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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2.0
Jan 4, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

9 to 5 usually, not much stress from work itself, work from home on selected day, 25 days holidays, share participation scheme, travel over 5 hours in businesses class even for ordinary analysts.sweet Once a year corporate management visit, which means lot of free drinks in town. When you manage to survive preparation....

Cons

No room to be creative, not rewarded for your own ideas and contribution, actually no need for ideas at all. Last few years all about cutting costs. Out of town location and still cutting work space by more then half. Management not aware of what IT job takes and needs. In fact most of managers have no technical understanding and very shallow technical background. No funds for training people for their jobs all you get is corporate policy trainings, corporate ethics training completely useless for job. Very political, you have to know right people and be good with them to progress or get interesting work. That doesn't depend on your knowledge or skills. Once you try be different they force you to leave. Excellence reward program called you can make a difference total joke. Be ready to talk lot and present yourself. That's all it takes there. Once a year visit from corporate headquarters makes local management go crazy for weeks with preparing self presentations. Be ready to spend more time on dry run presenting until they are satisfied. It's corporate culture week on its best !!!

2.0
Jun 2, 2016

Intern elsewhere

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay is not bad, people are a nice (with the exception of HR who are the fake nice type)

Cons

Work is boring, and now after applying to full time jobs I can say that I got one thanks to the other work experience on my resume - the work experience here is not valuable unless you're looking for similar CRM/enterprise tech jobs.

2.0
Mar 3, 2016

Oral Care Consultant

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great products, awesome benefits and a long standing company very well respected by dental community and highest level of quality scientific research

Cons

Difficult work life balance for amount of compensation and expectations. Highly micro managed and bonus based on opinion survey rather than performance.

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