So-so company, depends on your goals - Anonymous employee Colgate-Palmolive Employee Review

4.0
9 June 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Really great company to work for, good people, good benefits, good pay.

Cons

Over the years it has been seen that the quality of being a Colgate employee has been slowly diminishing. Nobody seems to know where these changes are coming from. None of them are large changes in particular, but more so the accumulation of all these small changes. Work life balance isn't bad if you have and office job. Plant jobs have worse work life balance. While upper management is for the most part composed of down to earth people, there seems to be a trend where the newer people moving up in middle management are very fake, cut throat, smile at your face/stab you in the back people.

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Cons

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Pros

Good fringe benefits. Above average insurance.

Cons

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