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

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
Apr 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Good company culture and caring people - The work-life balance is relatively attainable as compared to similar FMCG giants - Relatively competitive benefits package -

Cons

- HR favors external hires than instead of building leaders from within - Management can become too political in terms of promotion and people movements - Career progression is very very slow if you are home-grown and not an external hire - Cross-functional movements are very rigid

1.0
Apr 12, 2026

Used to be great not anymore

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

used to be an amazing company good pay & benefits a flat organization with some higher up people who ruined it over the years

Cons

you get a good pay however you pay for that big time very reactive management and full of bullies in the workplace, If you raise the reality in the industry and how we can improve as a company and bring solutions you get flagged no fair workload-some teams do nothing while others do the heavy lifting but still get blamed

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