Shiseido reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(862 total reviews)

Masahiko Uotani

68% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

Shiseido has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 862 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Shiseido 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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862 reviews
1.0
Mar 12, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Occasional free products and/or samples. Ground-breaking anti-aging products, if that is what you’re interested in.

Cons

Horrendous, unqualified, and unprofessional leadership and management, toxic culture that is promoted from the top, hard work goes unnoticed, very low pay. They have low budgets for everything, but expect an amazing level of work to be done. Will only favor and keep those that are favorites and have been there for a long time, even if they are not qualified. Employees regularly steal full sized products from the company’s Public Relations closet. High benefits cost, low gratis compared to other companies. Completely agree with the other reviews that stated how badly they treat you once you decide to leave. I was also meet with disrespectful, manipulative behavior, and bullying in the end. And the management acts like they are doing you a favor. Also witnessed and overheard demeaning behavior to other employees, such as threatening not to pay them, announcing pay rate in front of the whole department, etc. Daily tantrums from management. So many difficult people to work with. They act like they are elitist and experts who know what they are doing, but they have no idea. The only people who stay here are the ones who cannot get a job anywhere else. This place is a joke at best. Please take this and others advice, stay away from them.

1.0
Jan 30, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Don't have any yet because HR + boring team was not transparent during the interview process. Beware or you will be doing the job that you are massively overqualified for with no opportunities to grow.

Cons

Complete let down on the company and position. HR and team was not transparent when hiring and an entire team is ready quit. Functioning under a different job level and title than what was promised. Underpaid. Toxic environment lack of diversity

1.0
Apr 19, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A valuable mistake learn from this company

Cons

Lack of leadership, too many secrets within the company, leaders who are selfish with their own personal goals, innovation is dead, no experience engineers with actual engineering experience, the management works as a dictator instead of a leader, work balance does not exist within the company, leaders pretending they know actual stuff but have no clue what is going on, leaders do not have proper educational or work experience to be where they are now This company is a total sham within the cosmetic industry. The only thing holding Shiseido America up is their skin care line which is govern by the people in Japan. I won't be surprise if this side of the company just goes down.

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