Henkel reviews

4.4

90% would recommend to a friend

(5,211 total reviews)
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Carsten Knobel

94% approve of CEO

82% positive business outlook

Henkel has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 5,211 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Henkel employee rating is 27% above average for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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3.0
Jul 7, 2019

Shareholder value at all cost!

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Pros

Good salary, never bored, and many opportunities to learn. If you crave upheaval and fog, it's a fantastic place to work. The laser focus on shareholder value for the past 12 years has removed any distractions that would normally be associated with a future-focused work environment. There is nearly no personal responsibility required, because everything is someone else's job. It's truly a modern management paradise! It's truly easy to not actually do work, because change might happen, or because the responsibility tree is impenetrable and personal responsibility is simply not a priority. It's all about the PowerPoint, until the template changes and then thank goodness because I was starting to get caught up on my TPS reports. The avoidance of leadership is spectacular to behold.

Cons

Not many. Exhortation by management to writes reviews of every little shared service activity (and on Glassdoor) gets a bit tedious. The outsourced IT is confounding at best (no one is actually responsible for anything), and the near-constant reorganizations can be off-putting, but mostly because people are afraid to do anything that might get questioned.

2.0
Jun 13, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

It is a recognized brand worldwide and invests a lot of money to keep the corporate image clean.

Cons

Unfortunately, their processes are terribly slow, clumsy and tight. They rarely are open for suggestions on how to improve the internal procedures and the customers resent the inefficiency inside the company. People in Latin America have the tendency to wait until you ask them several times to do their daily tasks before they really perform them. The company claims its most valuable asset are the employees and that does not seem to be really true, it is just image, they do not really care about the individuals.

5.0
May 14, 2019

Good company with good people

Recommend
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Pros

Fast paced, challenging environment with lots of career opportunities. Good company to work for if you are interested in internal mobility and are comfortable with change. I have changed jobs a few times already in just a few years and have learned a lot. Very flexible with work life balance. They also have some great training and development opportunities and lots of chances to work with global colleagues. The people are smart and good to work with.

Cons

Some of the internal systems and processes are challenging and slow things down. Lots of time spent on internal requests from global HQ as opposed to focusing on our US business.

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