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EssilorLuxottica

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Great exposure, strong brands, but complexity comes with scale - Marketing Manager EssilorLuxottica Employee Review

3.0
9 Jun 2026
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Pros

EssilorLuxottica offers exceptional opportunities to work on globally recognized brands and products that genuinely impact people's lives. The organization provides strong exposure to international markets, cross-functional collaboration, and talented colleagues across commercial, medical, regulatory, and innovation functions. For those seeking global experience, the company offers opportunities to work with diverse teams and stakeholders across regions. The pace is fast, the work is meaningful, and there is significant learning in areas such as brand management, product launches, and navigating complex global organizations.

Cons

As with many large multinational organizations, decision-making can sometimes be slow due to multiple layers of governance and stakeholder alignment. Navigating organizational complexity requires patience, resilience, and strong stakeholder management skills. Processes more bureaucratic than entrepreneurial.

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5.0
22 May 2026
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Pros

Excellent benefits and good platform to start your career

Cons

More options for health benefits

2.0
5 Jul 2026
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Pros

- Generally, helpful co-workers. - Strong / iconic brands with dominant market positions. - Meta partnership / Smart Glasses is an exciting growth area. - Privilege of making incorrect business decisions that still yield positive outcomes.

Cons

- Low technology stack leading to many manual processes that are ripe for some level of automation. All work is basically conducted in Excel. - Company is extremely retrospective in its internal reporting versus focusing on predictive and prescriptive analyses that could be more value add. - Rank has its privilege mindset - Upper management lacks accountability for its decision making, putting the onus on lower level analysts to justify their business decisions which, many times, are made based on pre-conceived notions prior to any analytical rigor. - Similarly, many senior leaders can be abusive and outright disrespectful, which lead subordinates to take an "emperor has no clothes" philosophy when dealing with them. - Culture of fire drills with respect to assignments leading to unrealistic deadlines for critical work which compromises quality and completeness. - Company, many times, confuses tactics with strategy. - Poor communication with respect to all aspects of the business. Teams generally work in silos and crucial information is shared on a need to know basis.

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