EQ3 Reviews

3.0

44% would recommend to a friend

(98 total reviews)

Peter Tielmann

39% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

EQ3 has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 98 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The EQ3 employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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98 reviews
2.0
21 Sept 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

benefits, store discount, Canadian company, Canadian made upholstery.

Cons

Underpaid position for the amount of work expected. Commission needs to be re-structured or eliminated. Pay period commission sales goals aren’t consistently achievable and an unfair model. Expected to offer free furniture plan/3D rendering design work that doesn’t guarantee the sale and if a sale does come from it there are no bonuses.

1.0
1 Mar 2023

Stay away

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Up until recently this was a great place to work. A team of highly skilled individuals who had brought the ecommerce platform from a sad, pathetic, barely running system, to a modern, scalable revenue generating piece of the business.

Cons

Then some new leadership was hired. Existing VP was forced out. And the new leaders are out of touch with what the business requirements are. What the team needs to get work done. And more than half the team has resigned in the last 3 months. Promises are made, and never kept. The owner will act nice, and say the right things, then insult you behind your back. He thinks he owns your time 24/7, so if you have side work, keep it quiet. Generate millions in new revenue, and it won't go back into the team to hire more people, and have a team the size that is needed for the lofty goals. Instead you'll be working on a skeleton crew of 10, and expected to do the work of a 40 person team. The profit sharing was a blatant lie... there was no exit plan... it was a carrot dangled in front of us, but if you caught it, turns out it was plastic.

2.0
20 Jul 2020

Glorified Sales Person

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Discount and access to designer products such as Herman Miller and Vitra along with a car allowance for the Design Consultant.

Cons

Inequality among salespeople. A commission's based system that favors senior staff with a straight commission on all sales. Hostal work environment designed to put salespeople against each other. Targets are unrealistic and set to keep salespeople from reaching their tiered goals. Sales are passed on to senior salespeople in order to keep them satisfied leaving others to steal sales from other target bases salespeople. !!NO TRAINING!! New hires are given a catalog and expected to learn all the collections along with learning how to use an outdated POS system. Training is inconsistent!! One day you're trained by the store manager, the next by a recent hire that doesnt know the system and is still learning. Management is inconsistent and turn over is high with the assistant manager position being vacant for most of the year. This has lead to disagreements among senior staff and back of house sharing the responsibility of assisting the manager with duties that are not related to their job description and no compensations in pay. No support or encouragement from the store manager in promoting the role of the design program. Schedules are created for instore sales and not in-home consultations for the designer.

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