Alcon reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(2,530 total reviews)
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David J Endicott

77% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Alcon has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,530 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Alcon employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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3K reviews
2.0
Jul 25, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Location is great if you live in Fort Worth or Burleson. Cafeteria and fitness center are wonderful. Campus is kept clean. If you work for Alcon, you can have confidence that the products are high quality and worth standing by.

Cons

Where to start. I was told when I became pregnant that I needed to choose whether I wanted a baby or a career at Alcon, because you can't have a family and be successful there. There is vertually no training in the finance department, which leaves room for costly mistakes that management is ok with covering up. A professional audit would reveal these mistakes. The environment is extremely unprofessional and unethical. Racial and sexual slurs are made constantly, and gossip is a daily event. If you work in finance, prepare to be underpaid and overworked, unless you are one of the top few employees. If that is you, you will work ridiculous hours while they throw money at you to convince you to stay there, even though you are completely miserable and never see your family. Raises are a joke. While the company tries to tell you that they cannot afford raises over 2%, know that they are giving $25,000 bonuses to everyone above you, at a minimum.

1.0
Sep 15, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Beautiful campus Currently good medical plan, God knows when it will be changed as Novartis has acquired Alcon Currently good retirement plan, God knows when it will be changed as Novartis has acquired Alcon

Cons

- Need to have 360 perfromance review. Poor leadership in Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse group. Managment needs to show how to motivate, trust and respect their own employees instead of hiring consultants in their line management from outside who don't have real industry experience and also inturn hire their friends. - Look at the turn over rate of even contractors who come and go in a short period. Does anyone checks in HR the line manager and his tram is capable of hiring right contractor. - Management should stop hiring line management who are their ponies and don't have their own say how to execute their functinal. - Management has favorites who they promote. One thing is clear that RELATIONSHIP counts in the this company and group. (Have good relationship with your manager/director and abuse anyone in the organization.)

2.0
Aug 5, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are good which is the only thing you can say about this place

Cons

No moral compass in management. Very cliquish and lots of backstabbing Quality of management feedback is very poor. (I was told that another employee complained that I asked the same question to someone else. Did not matter that this employee was not clear in his answer. Another feedback was that I was staring at the computer for a long time... and I am in IT ;)) During the Novartis layoff, the managers took time off so that they didn't have to tell their employees...completely cowardly behavior.

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