Working at Unilever in Englewood Cliffs, NJ: 7 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Englewood Cliffs, NJ Area

"Dysfunctional, Has Lofty Fake Goals, Low Pay, Low Salaries and Job Titles Not aligned with Competitors, This is a good place for young, newly out of college or grad school employees to learn about office politics and backstabbing. Unilever feeds its employees the sanctimonious, delusional beliefs that "We're a family." Most employees actually bought this BS and clarion it to each other. You can Not fire or layoff your relatives! We're Not a family. We're co-workers, and co-workers Will throw each other under the bus to protect their jobs, promotions and even jobs they might want in the future. Unilever has such high employee turnover, Low Salaries and joke 1% bonuses, most employees stay for only one year. Unilever's idea of "customer analytics" and data science is hiring employees from Nielsen and simply replicating in-house what they're already paying millions of shareholder dollars for Nielsen to do. Unilever has an annual contract with Nielsen's CPG Dept.. Unilever should save its shareholders' money and simply stand in front of the Nielsen offices in Connecticut and Illinois with large Billboard signs stating, "We're hiring Nielsen employees!" The Dutch-British Executive Management are clueless about the USA markets. They think that what sells in Europe will be successful in the USA. It's a destitute company. Do Not count on getting competent technology help or support. Unilever's "technology" is antiquated and you'll feel like you stepped into a time machine with "technology" from the years 2000 to 2005."

"I worked for Unilever all my career and an opportunity to work both in North America and globally. Unilever brands provide unique opportunity to create positive change, to grow our business, and to achieve our purpose of making sustainable living commonplace. Unilever operates in 190 countries, has over 140000 employees and 6000 R&D employees driving growth."

"Good, purpose. driven company. It was great to get exposure to all the different products sold by Unilever. Having said this, my decision to leave was more of a reflection on my desire to transition towards a career more analytical in nature."

"Unilever is an outstanding company, with high aims in sustainabillity. If you know your purpose and can align it to your job, you will be able to achieve the highest results in the FMCG. Pay is good, support is good. I am talking about the Rotterdam, Netherlands (HQ) case here. I don't know about the US office (this site seems to not think outside of the US in its forms)"

"Unilever is a great company to work at for a few years, get experience, and then get out. The positives are flexible work hours, ok benefits, and ok pay. You will have the opportunity to get a lot of experience quickly, but at the cost of long hours. Decision making is slow, so you will spend a lot of time making multiple minor changes on the same material. There is little chance of advancement in the US, Unilever is moving as many jobs as possible to developing and emerging markets like India and Manila. It doesn't matter that the US is a huge market for Unilever, the primary focus of management is cost savings and tax avoidance. Expect to be a number on a spreadsheet. Most of the people are great, but senior management is not authentic. HR processes are archaic -- it's still a forced curve. IT systems are circa 2000. Sustainability mission is good, but at the cost of focusing on consumers and retailers. Great place to learn, but not a place to grow."

"Very tough to move up in this company, and in order to get to a Manager level you'd need to play the politics... very hard."

"Unilever is a fantastic place to work, however decision making is not very fast"

What do you like about working at Unilever?

"I personally like it there, people are very nice to each other, there are lots of things you can see and learn, such as big communication coming to live. And Senior management has a great vision to expand the business"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Nope, may be get a MBA, cause Unilever tend to hire MBA students"

What don't you like about working at Unilever?

"I always feel decision making was slow, because there are too much things to consider, which makes alot of great idea didn't come to live"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"make decision quicker, stop cutting budget and keep asking employee to work smart (work smart is reasonable, however, cutting resources making employees harder to work)"