Urban Decay was an amazing company to work for. The beauty industry had been something I always wanted to be in ever since I was little and finally a great opportunity to experience my dream came along. A typical day at work was a very very busy day. Even when we had those slow days it was extremely important for all of us to take the initiative to stay busy at all times. On a daily basis we are given sales goals. Our goal is $80/hour so my goal with an 8 hour shift would be $640+ at the end of the day. I learned a lot from this company. For starters, I have always been more on the mellow shy side but this job required you to seriously jump out of your comfort zone and become a social butterfly. We are a "pulling" counter, which basically means that we go out and seek people to put in our seat and have fun with makeup by using their face as your canvas, getting to know them, and in the end, close a sale and hope that they make a purchase. That was something I never thought I could do until I started working there and within about a month of learning as I go, I really got the hang of it and could pull a client within less than a minute. One of the biggest things I learned at Urban was communication skills. I learned how to talk to my employees and clients in a professional, respectful and considerate manner and built relationships of trust between the both of them. I was the unofficial manager in training which meant that I was also learning how to take on a managers responsib
ProsGrattice, amazing coworkers and clientele, fun and exciting, social skills
Beware to all who read this! This review will stun you. This is in no way coming from a point of regret for choosing this job; this is strictly coming from an experience standpoint.
The position I applied for, I thought was going to consist of and/or have the opportunity for real entry-level lab wet work and hands on experiments to be done, in addition to what I was told I was going to be doing-crimping hair and making hair swatches for various tests. It did not. I had hoped that down the road I could have gotten into the science behind the tests or solutions applied to the hair, even if just moderately, so I could take with me to my next job saying, "Hey, I've done this," or "Hey, I've calculated that," never happened. I know it was entry level and temporary, but I could've been given more of a challenge. This position, in honest respect, is NOT for anyone who is trying to make a mark in the scientific world and really wanting to become someone, "learn" something (new and applicable) and do something to make a difference. If you just need a job, then it’s great, no pun intended. I felt like it was a slap in the face me having worked so hard for a BS in Biochemistry. On top of that, the person I worked under treated me as if I was some sort of a threat to her and all I was looking for was an enjoyable experience to tell everyone, which I only got less than 5% of the time. The position I had, or rather the things that the scientist only "allowed" me to do, is fit for high sch
Prosmeet a few people that i liked, get to participate in the hair studies w/ or w/o compensation
Consshort breaks, treating totally different and less than the actual l'oreal employees, no advancement
Informative and interesting Area of the company to work in. Great Company!
A typical day was a morning filled with recruiting for and/or analyzing studies of products that were tested by consumers and preparing for the lunch rush of interviewing consumers who gave their feedback for product compensation.
-This position was very informative, I not only learned the positives and negatives of products under the L'Oreal umbrella, I also learned how the competitive brands also tested as our studies usually compared our brand to a competitive brand. I also learned how to analyze studies and conduct focus groups which brought alot of awareness to the ways and mentality of the average and not so average consumer. In addition to the opposite side of consumer awareness, being the liason between Marketing and the consumer, I also learned what the process is when Marketing wants to launch a new product and what they do after the analytical reports are delivered to them by us.
-Management seemed to have many years of experience in which they had shared for the benefit of the department/company.
-We had a variety of personalities but we all learned to communicate any differences or concerns within the department. We all understood and respected the fact that everyone is different and maintained a professional, happy and comfortable workplace.
-The hardest or I should say most challenging part of the job was getting as much detail needed during the interviews when the lunch hour rush would come through our center. Most of our consumers only had "less than an hour"
Coworkers are great.
Management is lost.
CEO constantly changes their mind on what they want a season to "feel" like.
I was so excited to work for this company. I started as a temporary employee to cover for a woman on maternity leave. A few weeks after she came back to work, she quit so I kept temping...That lasted about 15 months until I was finally hired, (mind you I was promised I would be hired soon for about 9 of those 15 months).
When I finally was hired I was given a lower title than what I had been for 15 months of temp work. It then took another year to get back to the title I had originally had as a temporary employee.
I had 6 different managers in my 3 years here. Some were asked to leave after costing the company millions, some decided to leave on their own and others were cornered into leaving once the company decided to do a huge restructure.
My fellow employees would constantly bring up things to managers and HR like, being overworked, working on something for months only to have to redo it several more times because someone somewhere just changed their minds about it one day, having managers pat us on the head and treat us rudely, having our titles changed without our knowledge, not being appreciated or compensated for our long hours and hard work, hiring people from different states instead of hiring from within, having managers be in constant meetings so there is no one to give direction when needed, being treated like second class citizens by hi
ProsA handful of good people, Makeup, Desk Decorating
ConsConstant confusion, triple work, long hours, rude managers, unresponsive HR, horrible communication overall
Great experience with challenge in an international background
This is my first job after graduation. L’Oréal chose me because considering all the technical competencies, they found that I spoke the best English and French among the Chinese and I spoke the best Chinese among the English and the French.
I started by learning SAP R3 and APO. I was a fast learner thanks to my former ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) experience in Dannon and Chanel. In addition, I spent a lot of time in bookstores and did a lot of research to enrich my knowledge on SAP. I adapted myself to the French way of working and very soon got along really well with others. 3 months later, I began to work on deploying two L’Oréal Chinese factories with SAP solutions. One is in Yichang and the other in Suzhou. Since they were using X3 during 10 years and had hardly heard of SAP, my colleagues and I did a lot of preparation work including understanding their local needs, analyzing the differences between their daily practices with technical functionalities, coming up with new ideas, presenting new solutions in order to help them go through this difficult period of transformation. I remember the day when I took the plane at 1pm in Paris and arrived 5am in Shanghai, I went straight to the hotel and launched myself to work during 36 hours. I remember during 6 months arguing with SAP for a defect and asking for a satisfying solution. I remember having 3 hours meeting translating Chinese to English, English to French and French to Chinese make sure that everyone was on th
I worked for a fanstastic Fortune 500 company and I had a Great Boss
My typical day at work was: working with a salesforce of (6), marketing reports, Creating sales reports and presentations of which were directly overseen by Sales Managers throughout the country and then approved by President of Redken/Loreal haircare. Screening calls, creating Power Point presentations, heavy scheduling both internally and with vendors. Also setting up company dinners/car services/hotels, heavy domestic and international travel along with travel and expense reports. I also set up monthly sales educational conferences locally and yearly Symposium for the whole company along with the other administrative assistants.
I am a very fast learner and I learned from my peers and the other assistants to be a team player, how to multi-task, educate myself on the products, learn the office culture, know how/who to get the information that was needed the fastest, worked long hours, not to get involved in workplace gossip, and stay connected to the winners in the departments. I also tried to take a class in French.
The hardest part of the job was keeping up with the enormity of mass of numbers and equate them with the sales managers when they would come in once a month for a week. Also, trying to stay out of the gossip in the workplace. Keeping up with the enormous workload.
The best part of the job was learning at a Fortune 500 company with Executives who had years of experience and I was learning from them. They were mentoring me and it was very excit
ProsBest Boss Ever, Great offices, Traveling with my boss domestically and abroad, Discounts on products, Learning from the best, getting firm education on new products and services.
ConsVery low salary, very tough, high-paced, cut-throat work environment, needed more staff, not getting promotion when deserved in our department.
Working in L'Oreal has been a great experience, it's a great company which help and motivate to achieve your goals.
Each day is different while working in Foreign Trade Zone. Day to day I have data entry work, along with monitoring deliveries with trucking companies. Every day, I coordinate with other L’Oreal facilities on timely deliveries, tracking of the cargo orders and tariff classification. Work with management on custom issues; interact with airlines, steamship lines and forwarding companies on any freight issues.
I have learned how to manage, prioritize my day to day work. I can make independent decisions regarding issues with any of L’Oreal vendors and custom issues.
I have been working with a great team. We work together in most of the area of this field. We help each other in any new projects and advisement as needed by other L’Oreal facilities and vendors.
Well I have learned and have been taught, no job is hard if you put your mind to it, so rightly saying it sometimes get changeling. I would say it does get very changeling at the time of launches when the manufacturing is under pressure to meet the deadlines. We have to prioritize the work accordingly and have the cargo delivery on time, if it requires late or after work hours. Also working with US customs gets a bit changeling, as we have to work according to what is expected from an importer.
I believe that any job could be enjoyable if your heart is set on it. My job requires customer services skills; you are able to make lot of business contacts, who you work with on daily bases. The nature of the business is lot of commu
Prosit has been great working for l'oreal, i was able to continue my education while working
Consthe only thing, i don't get to do is attend ftz trade meeting, because of economical reasons.
My responsibility as a Financial Analyst in L'Oreal corporation forecasting and Budgeting Finance Team on a day to day Operation is to retrieve financial documentation from Business Objects and Convert the Documents into a pivot Table format analyzing and interpreting Actual vs. Budget Comparison. For an example, I would compare the prior year's Budget to the Present Year's Budget comparison of retained Earnings of How much of the earnings is utilized in a particular area such as Favorable and Adverse Analysis. The sectors are Direct Materials, Direct Labor, Materials, And Vendor Invoices of Merchandise bought and Sold. After all of the information gathered and converted into a pivot table format I would prepare a particular Line and bar graph of explanation of how Much budget is remaining in relation to the deviation between Net Income and Revenue.
The reason for constructing a Pivot Table is to save Time and Effort for Financial Manager, instead of the manager skimming through workbook to workbook of thousands of documents to be approved. Also we would undergoes a excel test of various formulas such as V-lookups, Sum-if's, and macros to find solutions to our assumptions.
For Example, as an analyst I had to find out each regions total sales for the month and the total Sales Managers total output on a given criteria. If a criteria of >=$50,000 is given, then I would perform a V-lookup Analysis to retrieve all Sale Managers equivalent to the criteri
A typical day in the life of an AC (Account Coordinator) would be as follows:
1-Wake up and get beautiful. Easier said than done.... you represent a makeup company so you better have your FULL face on everyday. Hair, cloths and accessories are just a few other thing you have to incorporate into your everyday routine as well.
2-Once you've "put your face on" it's email/office work time! About one hours worth of "store prep" and emails. time sheets, phone calls, scheduling for yourself and your employees. etc... busy work.
3-Head out the door with a smile on your face.
4-Pick up treats or whatever that particular store wants that you are heading too.
5-Arrive at store and greet all the associates and managers, give them the treats bring stuff to the back room.
6-Meet with any manager in the building at the time, get weekly number and give them budgets and goals for the day, week, month, quarter, etc.
7-Train any employees under management about any new products, teach tips and tricks, demonstrate selling techniques, reward with gratis.
8-Work side by side with said employees on the store floor where we partner together in selling the companies products. This is where the hands on artistry takes place.
9-Talk more to management about eventing oppurtunities and how/what we can do to bring more business to both ends.
10-After a long day's work, head back home. When home, check up on employees (part time selling specialists) and make sure they had a successful
Prosfree makeup, held accountable for your own actions (honor system), "rockstar" of the makeup world, paid expenses & milage.
Consa lot of travel, 10-14 hour days depending on how much travel and office work needs to be done, faking a smile with some store.
Pros
- High Levels of Responsibility given early
- High Budget Spend
- Some freedom to Try New Ideas
- People are generally intelligent, motivated and ambitious and fun
Cons
- Political
- Incredibly slow moving, decisions take a long time by which point the competition has already sped ahead
- Legal are ultra strict and inefficient, only accept paper submissions
- Company is completely inefficient, repetitive reports, work which could be automated
- IT is shockingly bad. Internet down for half days at a time, months to resolve
- Email culture, cc everyone to cover your backside
- Senior Management are arrogant, false, pretend to care because they've been told to show more empathy
- Scores very low on internal worker survey vs UK average
- Meetings NEVER start on time, not uncommon for senior meetings to run over by 5,6 hours
- Late nights are inevitable as there simply aren't enough people to cover the workload
- Headcount is kept unbearably low, the very minimum to get the job barely done
- Due to such heavy work load many have checked out on stress leave
- As another poster said they think you'll never leave
- No salary bands are published, zero transparency from upper management ( this is starting to
change)
- HR have no succession planning or a very vague plan of you can be a General Manager within 5 years
- The place practically runs on Interns and Grads who are brought through the Management Trainee programme but are really a form of cheap labour and often take up posi
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Praktikant Marketing (m/w/d) | Düsseldorf | Aug 15, 2016
Wannabe-Version: "Der Teufel trägt Prada"
Es gab einige positive Punkte bei meinem Praktikum: Die Kollegen waren ganz nett, der Kaffee günstig, das Office zentral. Hin und wieder konnte ich bei der Mafo aktiv teilnehmen und die Fokusgruppen hinter blickdichter Scheibe beobachten. Auch konnten wir PraktikantInnen uns gegenseitig schulen, was ich super fand. Ebenso konnte man an Schminkworkshops teilnehmen, Fotoshootings oder Massagen. Auf alle Makeupartikel bekommt man 50% - sehr fair!
Leider: Mir wurde ein Programm zu Verfügung gestellt, dass ständig abgestützt ist und oft Ladeschwierigkeiten hatte. Hin und wieder konnte man sich überhaupt nicht einloggen, was frustrierend war und ständig hatte ich das Gefühl, dass die Kollegen mir dafür de Schuld gaben. Mein Vorgesetzter wollte mir dann erklären was ich falsch mache und bei ihm ist der selbe Fehler aufgetreten. Anstatt mir eine richtige Beschäftigung zu geben oder gemeinsam das Pproblem zu lösen wurde ich mit meinem manchmal funktionierenden Programm alleine gelassen.
Echt nervig. Die anderen Aufgaben waren so stupide, dass ich mich schnell unterfordert gefühlt habe. Zudem ziehmlich mikropolitisch, dass heisst kleinste Fehler werden dramatisch aufgebauscht, anstatt die Kuh im Dorf zu lassen. Wirkliche Eigeninitiative umzusetzten: Fehlanzeige. Das liegt natürlich auch daran, dass es eben ein Praktikum ist, nicht eine Festanstellung.
Kultur: Ich muss schon sagen, dass die Kultur bei L'Oréal mich ein bisschen an eine Wannabe-Version des "Teufels trägt Prada"
ProsKostenlose /Preiswerte Produkte, Fotoshootings, preiswerter Kaffee etc.
ConsMikropolitik, Firefighting, keine Projekte die wirklich einen Mehrwert bringen
Toute une histoire. Si je devais résumé ces derniers-mois chez l'Oréal, c'est l'expression que j'utiliserai.
L'expérience a commencé en Août.
Deux mois après mon retour à Montréal, un ami me fis rentré chez l'Oréal en tant qu'employé du plancher, me disant qu'il s'agissait d'un poste où le travail était toujours présent.
Je commençais donc par trier des produits de toute sorte, pour les envoyer à une autre équipe qui les mettais en boite et nous montions ces dernières sur des palettes qui par la suite étaient envoyés à l'entrepôt de Toronto en prévoyance de la vente à venir.
Cette partie là dura deux mois, et tout d'un coup, on s'arrête.
Pas de travail pendant deux semaines, et puis tout d'un coup je suis rappelé pour travaillé seulement un jour et rebelote pour deux semaines de vide.
Étant rappelé par la suite pour mettre en place les rayons en prévisions de la vente, c'est là que la vrai grosse partie du travail a commencé : le début de la vente privée de Montréal.
Tout a commencé très vite, lors de mon premier jour, j'ai commencé avec un chandail bleu (employés plancher) et avant que je m'en rende compte, je signais un contrat pour devenir assistant superviseur merchandising.
Le lendemain on me fixais deux zones bien distinctes, et une cadence de travail assez élevé, je ne m'en plein pas, ça fais partie du travail.
Mais alors que j'étais lancé, j'appris que j'allais désormais me retrouver avec des horaires de 15h par jour (9h - 00h) pendant 3 jour, soit
ProsEquipe de superviseur très compétentes, pareil pour les assistants
Consmanque de communication, mauvaise équipe de gérants, entrepôt=capharnaum
GRAN COMPAÑIA MULTINACIONAL PERFUMERÍA Y COSMÉTICA DE LUJO
Trabajar en esta empresa me ha aportado una gran experiencia profesional.
Conocimiento de la filosofía de marca y el entorno de su competencia. Conocimiento de los productos de colorido, cosmética y perfumes. Elaboración bimensual de ruta comercial, optimizando los recursos. Establezco relación de confianza con responsables y consejeras de belleza en los puntos de venta que me corresponden geográficamente.
Ofrezco formación de producto, tanto de las novedades que se lanzan al mercado como del catálogo básico. Formación en técnica de ventas para encadenar unos productos a otros, obteniendo así una mejor venta final. Fidelización de las consejeras a la marca para que se convierta en una prioridad, con el objetivo de fidelizar a su vez a la consumidora final.
Merchandising en perfumes, cosmética y colorido. Luchando siempre por lograr un espacio de mayor visibilidad y en el entorno adecuado de marcas de alta perfumería. Aprovechar las oportunidades consiguiendo segundos espacios para incrementar la visibilidad en el punto de venta.Seguimiento de acciones trade marketing, reportando al departamento trade. Analisis de acciones de la competencia en el punto de venta. Preparación y seguimiento de las acciones con expertos de la marca, asegurando las existencias de mercancía, probadores, material de apoyo y regalos para la consumidora.
En los últimos 4 años incorporo nuevas tareas comerciales, gestionando una cartera de clientes tradicionales. Venta directa y desarrollo de accion
A typical working day for me would begin at 9.30am i always try to arrive on counter by 9.00 just to make sure its ready for the day (eg surfaces are clean and lights are on) . I also use this time to check my personal appearance so that i am ready for the day.
I'l then begin the day by checking our figures to see how we are doing for the week. Il then work out the remaining target and split this between the days of the week remaining and give each of my team members their target for the day.
I will then set up the day with my team, explain our target and the plan of action for the day.
We then go out and get our customers and offer them a try of our products. We spend the majority of the day doing this. Its my job to keep my team motivated and positive throughout the day and ensure we are being as pro active as possible. I may also spend some time in the day planning and organizing events, Ordering and checking stock and talking to my Area manager to give her an overview of the week.
Being the Assistant manager has taught me how to work as part of a team while still being seen as an authoritative role. Its helped me to balance out my work attitude to make friends but also remain in charge so that everything runs smoothly.
The Hardest part of this job is being rejected by customers that we stop, its important not to take it personally and remain polite. Thank them for their time and move on to somebody else.
It is also hard on quite weeks when our targets are harder
ProsWe get 20% off in our store and 40% off in the Restaurant
ConsNot being recognized as an individual within a very large company
Es una empresa en la que aprendes a trabajar por iniciativa propia, no tiene la apertura y la continuidad para que te capacites, entras al mercado aprendiendo sola, eso te da la pauta para conocer mas sobre el mercado sus debilidades y sus fortalezas.
Es muy complicado el crecimiento interno ya que la oportunidad que otorgan para los mismos empleados no se considera del todo, ya que no existe una continuidad en la formación de los mismos.
La empresa como tal es muy reconocida a nivel mundial en departamentales, pero en el canal tradicional les falta mucho por avanzar, mayoreo es un canal que no han considerado y tienen carencia en diferencia con el resto de los mayoristas.
Se requiere de mucha perseverancia con los clientes y posicionar la gama de los productos, faltan herramientas de presentación para con los clientes.
El trabajo en equipo esta dividido, no apoyan mucho a fomentarlo, existe en algunas áreas individualismo y en otras subgrupos en el mismo equipo.
La marca me enseñó mucho sobre los retos, viajar era algo que no estaba acostumbrada pero el ritmo y la necesidad de cubrir la meta lo hace mas accesible, me encantó poder conocer todos los productos por iniciativa personal, ya que solo recibí una capacitación en 3.5 años laborales.
Le agradezco que del campo aprendí a sensibilizarme al mercado y conocer cuales son las necesidades de los consumidores finales.
Tuve una excelente relación con los clientes a cargo con los cuales se tuvo que trabajar de la man
ConsEsquema de politica de viajes nada razonables, viaticos de 250 al dia foranea, local de 120, vuelos con salida a las 6am aun sabiendo que debía trasladarme desde mi ciudad base hasta el DF, no existe flexibilidad al respecto.
Questions And Answers about L'Oréal
What is the vacation policy like at L'Oréal? How many vacation days do you get per year?
Asked Sep 22, 2016
I had 5 weeks, and 7 personal days. I worked for L'oreal for over 30 years until retirement. Had my ups and down, but overall it was the best job I ever had. Piscataway NJ.
Answered Aug 21, 2019
Only aloud 2 people off a shift lots of mandated work year round.
Answered Jul 6, 2018
What is the most stressful part about working at L'Oréal?
Asked Sep 22, 2016
Meeting the quota that they raise constantly when it is met...the bar gets harder every year to reach.
Answered Mar 26, 2019
I don't consider the job stressful at all, I love the environment and the people I work with.
Answered Jan 7, 2019
What advice would you give the CEO of L'Oréal about how to improve it?
Asked Nov 8, 2016
Give more opportunities for individuals aspiring to establish their careers.
Answered Jul 22, 2019
Listen to the troop on the group on the ground, they see and know. Then look at the data collected and make improvements. You cannot please all the employees, however, if the majority notice improvements they will stick around.
Really know your people!
Answered Jun 23, 2019
What is the work environment and culture like at L'Oréal?
Asked Jun 18, 2016
Customers treat you like slaves and it’s very stressful.
Answered Jun 9, 2018
Really good and encouraging
Answered Mar 21, 2018
How often do raises occur at L'Oréal?
Asked Feb 10, 2017
Never, They never even gave me a yearly review.
Answered Aug 14, 2018
They don’t give raises at all or promote you within the company. First thing they promise you “growth” and it’s definetly not what you get
