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      Colgate-Palmolive

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      Colgate-Palmolive reviews

      4.1

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (2,485 total reviews)
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      Noel Wallace

      85% approve of CEO

      70% positive business outlook

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      Colgate-Palmolive has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,485 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 Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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      2K reviews
      4.0
      Feb 2, 2015

      highly collaborative culture

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Excellent community of colleagues. Supportive culture. Plenty of opportunity for those prepared to work hard and be flexible about where the company wants to place you.

      Cons

      High alignment culture means that things can move very slowly. IT & Technical systems are old and high control which makes it difficult to keep pace with outside world. Salary and benefit programs are very rigid. Work by rule rather than guiding principles and logic, eg terrible vacation policy which management recognizes but won't change.

      4.0
      Feb 1, 2015

      Great People, Training, & International Opportunities

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      All employees that are hired at Colgate are great people to work with. They are smart and make up the positive, non-cut throat attitude that exists at the Canadian subsidiary. Everybody is very collaborative and willing to help out each other. Colgate is a great place to work if you are looking for international opportunities. After spending a couple years at the company at senior levels, being mobile becomes a requirement for promotion. There is great work life balance at CP - you have to work hard to deliver results but it is not expected that you work into unreasonable hours of the night as compared to other CPGs.

      Cons

      Colgate is very conservative and makes its shareholders their number one priority above its consumers and its employees. That being said, the company does not invest in developing a great work culture and does not do enough to invest in its employees. Compensation is on the lower end of the Tier 1 CPG scale and promotion is slow and based on the time with the company rather than merit-based.

      3.0
      Jan 29, 2015

      Great company to work for

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Colgate is a good school and it also provided good benefits. It is company that is always looking to improve systems and processes. It also has good professionals

      Cons

      Some times it is hard to continue your professional growth because they can't spare the people to be assigned to other opportunities because they are tied in personnel

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