Essilor reviews

"French ceiling" - there is a cap to your professional growth if you do not speak French. Being a company from France, with a Canadian home office in Montréal, this makes sense - but it is very frustrating to experience in Toronto. Compensation is simply not adequate. Year after year lower-level employees must continuously sacrifices to their person lives purely for the purpose of continuing to work for Essilor while surviving in the GTA. Personally, if I ever need to resign from the company it will be due to lack of adequate pay and no other reason.

Extremely unethical company who has absolutely no knowledge of fair and ethical business practises. If you don’t speak French, you don’t have a chance to be anything except used and abused. They use intimidation and scare tactics to try to squeeze work out of the predominately “newcomer to Canada” demographic which is sad because they do not know their employment rights under the employment standards act. They will throw you out, the minute they can replace you with someone who will do your job for less compensation. They talk about training and development online and through social media channels to make it look like they invest in their employees however the only people who receive any shred of training are those who are ex-pats from France.