Pros
- Amazing talent/co-workers, a true pleasure to work with - The organization was a well-oiled machine with processes in place to get work done efficiently. (This slowly change due to re-structuring and high turnover.) - A great place to learn the business of Retail - Excellent employee benefits - Fair compensation - New headquarters in Hudson Yards soon - A truly global brand
Cons
- A feeling that corporate stopped valuing its people - Lack of transparency once the company began re-branding (coinciding with restructuring) in 2013 - Upper management with poor people management skills responsible for large groups/divisions - Bleeding talent due to instability of the work environment. For example, layoffs now come at random times, whereas prior they were associated with the quarterly earnings call. Co-workers leaving voluntarily would mysteriously disappear with little notice because upper management did not want to announce the amount of turn over. - Increased work load for all remaining employees trying to meet impossible demands when running on empty - Large amounts of time spent on onboarding new employees and temps significantly took away from productivity