ASOS Reviews

Cons

Hard to think of any

Cons

- Due to growth office is split in two locations.

Cons

- Lack of work life balance
- No clear career path or view on how to get promoted
- A lot of office politics

Cons

Retail pay is atrocious, not competitive at all to my knowledge. Many people leave ASOS, go to Arcadia and come back on a higher pay grade and job title.
Office politics exist everywhere so that's negligible
Many levels to Promotions. Each JD is tiered:
Entry
Lvl 1/Established
Senior
To move up you must be assessed and or signed off. This happens every 6-12months in March & September. If you start in Feb, or Aug you have limited time to learn the role then prove your worth. So will need to work very hard to step up 2 roles.
Doing your job is not enough to be levelled up. You must be doing the role above to be signed off. You have no opp to show you can you must be already doing it.
Workload can be great.

Cons

not much opportunity for advancement within certain departments

Cons

Becoming bigger and more corporate every week. Very hard to progress (to move higher up in the company). No established progression/promotion system. People manage to get better paid roles out of pure luck. The selection process is very random.

Also, it's becoming a very dogmatic environment, with strong rules and less space for creativity and experimentation/entrepeneurship.

Cons

lack of motivation, boring job

Cons

where to start
middle management is ridiculous, we have suddenly got more 'heads of' in our department than there are desks, they just keep adding more layers at the top and only promote below if you are mates with your manager. the managers regularly demonstrate extreme incompetence at the most basic employee related queries, constantly trying to get HR involved, who don't know how to handle the situation themselves. the HR team protects middle management only and will quiz and cross interrogate you like you're the one in the wrong if you go to them with a grievance. I have never seen such an immature and incompetent team of managers and HR. very unhappy environment. after my meeting with HR I noticed the person I spoke with gossiping to another team member about what I had just confidentially disclosed to them. truly shocked.

Cons

Where do I start? HORRIBLE atmosphere. An undercurrent of fear runs through the place. You're made to feel bad if you go to lunch one minute early / late. Everything is done using stupid "process maps" which are confusing and pointless. The company is extremely hierarchical. There is a strong culture of faces fitting and woe betide you if you show any kind of independence of thought. The shift work sucks the very soul of your being, turning your life into a zombie-like existence where you are too tired to do anything but cannot sleep. If you're about 19 and covered in tattoos, extremely loud and brash, you might do OK here. If not, forget it. The managers are incompetent and haven't got a clue what they're dealing with. They will falsify stats to get you out if your face doesn't fit.

Cons

My employment was terminated due to a few reasons, some for not following process when I was only just taught it and one of which was a fabricated reason from a leader. It was that my behavior did not suit the requirements of the role customer care advisor and that it is not acceptable to say things like 'Thanks Mate' or 'cheers bro' to the Team Leader. There was no statements taken from either side or any investigation concluded, it was just taken as fact that I must've said it. Even though I did not know this until I was in the meeting my employment was being terminated in.

All I can say is, if they don't like you personally then they will do whatever they need to, to get rid of you. Even if that means making things up likemy leader did. They also have a negative snappy attitude towards workers but this is more due to the type of Leaders that were training my group at the time, the others seemed fine.

On the plus side the termination went smoothly and respectively.