Unilever reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(11,400 total reviews)

Hein Schumacher

65% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Unilever has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 11,400 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Unilever employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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11K reviews
5.0
Jul 22, 2016

Trainee

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great benefits, competitive salary, challenge work, growing opportunities, out of the box thinking, entrepreneurial mindset

Cons

No cons during my experience

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Unilever Response
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Hi. Thank you very much for taking the time to leave a review of your previous role. It's great to see you mention challenging and rewarding work, opportunities to grow, and our culture as particular positives. We hope your current role is proving successful and wish you all the best.
1.0
Oct 1, 2016

Practice what you preach

Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- a focus on trying to achieve an agile flexible work-life balance - well known brands - breath of international talent

Cons

- everyone is overworked - managers take credit for lower executives work and ideas - no view to change broken processes - culture is AGGRESSIVE. Kill or be killed

2.0
Nov 24, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You will learn a lot at Unilever; financials, customer engagement, global markets, time management, resilience and the list goes on.

Cons

I've literally watched people cry week after week due to overwork and a lack of support. We have a huge level of turnover. The culture is one where we need someone to blame for mistakes and it's normally pointed downward and micromanagement is ridiculous. I think the most concerning part for me is how we are so incredibly profit driven but communicate both internally and externally that we are 'purpose lead'. Here are some examples; we've outsourced multiple functions which is massively impacting our business efficiency, we've made people redundant who have been loyal for years, we've closed the Weis factory in Toowoomba after buying it from the Weis family in 2017 and stating in the sale we would keep the factory there ongoing (google it). We've got one brand that is suggesting it's purpose is around supporting womens self esteem (Dove), yet we have another one that has been objectifying women for years (Lynx)... we say we are all about sustainability but according to Amnesty international we consume unsustainable palm oil which also uses child labour (google it).

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