Good for your CV - Anonymous employee Burberry Employee Review

There is no real confidence in the creative direction at Burberry. Much segregation between teams leads to miscommunication/chinese whispers and essentially a lot of talent is wasted due to lack of opportunity to be creative. There are almost too many people working on the creative side. A lot of ideas and concepts are stripped bare by layer upon layer of sign-off before execution, meaning that a lot of concepts lack strength or conviction when finally approved. Too many cooks. Although I was personally fine, there is a lack of engagement between management (who are generally inexperienced or lack power to do anything) and junior members of staff(who need a lot of support from management). This has lead to very low team morale across the company. The denial of resolvable issues, alongside archaic attitudes and methods of communication, and just general absence in the need of leadership, can be difficult for the most junior of team members. Creative work is reserved for management or those who have been there for many many years - don't take a creative job here and expect to do anything interesting straight away. One last thing I found very challenging was the triviality of various systems (HR, Payroll, etc) being run by third party providers. Understandable if a small company outsources these types of things, but Burberry have these teams in house AND outsource them. Simple things like trying to contact IT or have a look at your payslip become long-winded processes of logging into third party apps which require authentication (on your own phone, obviously). Frustrating when you simply need to check if you've been paid correctly or want to expense something. Great for your CV but difficult to find anything truly great to say about my time here.