Unilever reviews

Leaders who hire & promote based off of nepotism or brown-nosing. If you excel at shameless brow-nosing & don’t do any work, but talk as if you do, then this is the perfect place to be promoted. Talented employees are not valued here. Expectations to get things done with the resources available (knowledge, tools, capacity, etc) is unrealistic to the degree you think that a child demanded it. Employees do not have the skills required to do their own job so mgrs delegate work to the one or two overworked & competent employees out of an entire team. If you deliver on unrealistic demands, then too often you delivered for nothing b/c the work got de-prioritized or ignored. You're better off not doing any of the work that's asked because there's a 50% chance it would’ve been for nothing, or pretend to be incompetent, and let the one person on your team do everything. You’ll work many hours b/c UL has an extreme amt of useless mtgs that suck time, energy, morale, & causes disengagement. You’ll get punished for not joining useless mtgs and labeled as “disengaged.” UL sends “anonymous” surveys encouraging honest feedback. These surveys aren’t anonymous. You’ll be fired for your honesty. UL wants sycophants & ego strokers. Surveys are used to target the hardworking & exploited disgruntled workers. Feedback is ignored. Such high turnover, the Leadership Team must be incentivized for it b/c they aren’t doing anything to stop it. Vacated roles don’t get backfilled. The team absorbs the work of 1 or 2 roles & employees double or triple hat with ZERO TRAINING. Now you can look forward to getting negative feedback/perf. review on work you weren’t expecting to do. If you’re successful during this mess then you become the go-to for everything! If you enjoy stress and 12 hr shifts, regardless of this pandemic (because these cons were RAMPANT since 2014), then this is the place for you. UL will have a huge vacuum of key talent that it's going to get worse.

Corporate is so detached from plant locations - they leave the plants floundering with no investment or resources. Plant culture is a joke - bullying and intimidation are rampant at this location (Chicago) and HR does nothing. The union is untouchable and the employees know it. Leadership is not willing to listen when problems are brought to their attention. No care for life/work balance or personal lives. You are literally a body taking up space to them. I would leave work crying 3-4 times a week from the amount of verbal and mental abuse from co-workers and plant workers on the floor. I would have panic attacks just thinking about going into work. My boss at my new job says they can tell I have PTSD from this job. All these problems were brought to the attention of the QA Manager at the time and were never addressed and I was instead told to stop being so vocal. Quality culture is all but nonexistant - the rest of the plant sees food safety and quality as an afterthought and a burden.