Great people and brands, terrible work life balance - Customer Business Manager Unilever Employee Review

2.0
Nov 11, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation and benefits Many great brands with very good consumer demand Very smart and hard working people

Cons

Work life balance horrendous No matter when vacation/holiday time is scheduled, expectation is you will work. Especially month end or year end. Sales executives are very short term focused, too much time spent discussing daily and monthly sales numbers No training on brand heritage or history and very little sales training 8 downsize reorgs in 10 years HR is not advocate for employee and you rarely speak to or hear from them Decision making is slow and tedious, not competitive

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5.0
Jan 22, 2026
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Pros

Love the people, great mentors, wonderful team members. Very welcoming office and great relationships. I love coming to work!

Cons

Under resourced and underpaid for the skills I bring to the table, which contributes to retention issues

3.0
Jul 1, 2026
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Pros

It is a large company with a record of 3 years without a recordable injury. Occasionally feeds the employees

Cons

The biggest issue with this plant and it invades every aspect of the company is a complete lack of ability to properly communicate information. The applies internal to departments, across departments and up and down. They have the technology to do it, just not the organization. Company could probably use much more Engineering organization.

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