Aims at greatness achieves mediocrity - Analyst AkzoNobel Employee Review

2.0
Feb 8, 2019
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Market leader. Dynamic and inspiring UK manager (not the corporate CEO from Amsterdam). Multi national. Lots of opportunities for those inclined to network.

Cons

Soulless corporation does not care for its employees and does little to no investment in its people. I basically trained myself to do my job. Red tape galore. Monolithic and not agile. Also recent focus on profit means slashed investment in perks. Goes through regular "restructuring" which basically means redundancies. Finally a real lack of leadership. Unlike the CEO departments are lead by project managers with little to no people skills so inspiration is a rare commodity.

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