CafePress Reviews

2.7

37% would recommend to a friend

(147 total reviews)
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Fred Durham

49% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

CafePress has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 147 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The CafePress employee rating is 24% below average for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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147 reviews
1.0
22 Dec 2016

Embarrassingly Bad Leadership

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Beautiful Corporate headquarters, generally friendly atmosphere with lots of little side perks (free snacks, cookies every Friday). Good work-life balance with a flexible schedule and work-from-home options. Very modern technology and equipment.

Cons

The leadership is shockingly poor. A few months back, several managers forced a large number of people to write positive Glassdoor reviews because they were loosing candidates (so take the positive reviews with a grain of salt). The CEO seems to believe that he can single-handedly run the entire company by himself, and has dismissed key leadership positions to run several departments on his own. Decisions are never made based on data or expert experience, but basically haphazardly, with the core business strategy and direction changing every 2-3 months. Projects never even have time to get off the ground before they either end up canceled or radically changing. This has led to long-term employees becoming so apathetic that they don't even bother to try anymore--and there is no consequence for this behavior because promotions and rewards are entirely based on length of tenure at the company with long-time employees being beyond reproach while new hires are treated as less than dirt. This leads to a kind of subtle lie about a low turn-over rate because staff are not treated as real employees until they have at least 2-3 years under their belt (the actual turnover rate is very high). After about 4-5 years, most employee only work about 6 hours a day (much of which is spent watching YouTube or complaining about projects until the management gives up and cancels them). This means that many systems are horribly outdated or grossly behind the rest of the marketplace, pushing the company's slow decline to irrelevance along a little faster.

1.0
30 Mar 2017

Don't be fooled, looks can be deceiving.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Cafepress pays well and there is a lot of flexibility. Love the cafe and there are a lot of good people there.

Cons

Not a place for women. Women have no voice at Cafepress. If you speak up you're considered difficult. Classic and the newest of the good ole boy's clubs. Leaders like to play with your life. No moral depth. Made a big mistake when they let the best VP they ever had leave at the end of 2016. Culture shifted significantly after she resigned.

1.0
7 Oct 2016

Making employees write good reviews?

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Pros

Absolutely, positively none. In fact, there are so many cons that they should be considered negative Pros.

Cons

...the fact that there are so many "positive" reviews now should tell you something. Do NOT believe them. Look further back at the reviews to see exactly what CafePress is and how they operate. It has to be one of the worst places to work in Louisville.

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