Unilever reviews

1) the company applies a hidden agenda where it in 90% of cases only promotes people who have started their career at Unilever as trainees. All other employes that have been hired have a difficult time to have a succesful career and rise in the ranks at the company. Believe me, i have been working there several years. trainess rise fast through the ranks and when they are high in rank, they more or less only promotes new trainees. it is basically a closed group even though this is not the companies offical ways of working which is communicated internally or externally. 2) There is a very high turnover of employees (which basically only consists of employees that did not start as trainees). 3) low pay & work hours is very long. many people in the company works very very long hours every day. you do not get compansated for extra hours worked. you are paid for 7,5hours per day even if the average workhours is more in line with 11 hours per day.

Staff were over worked, no real company induction, didn't know who to contact or what I was supposed to be doing, the level of long term sick is the highest I've seen in any organisation. It seems that the culture is to work people until they are completely burnt out and then expect them to go off sick until they return again and repeat the cycle. I saw this happen at all levels of the organisation and decided to move on before it happened to me. This is an issue at all levels of the orgnanisation as I saw it happen to senior leaders and support staff alike.