A Place of False Hopes - Anonymous employee Pixi Employee Review

1.0
5 Sept 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Can't even think of one tbh.

Cons

This is the perfect place to come if you’re looking to get burnt out and run an entire department by yourself (as they pay you the minimum base salary required by the state of California). When I started we had ~145 employees nationwide, after leaving, we were notably below 100. Coming into Pixi, I read the Glassdoor reviews, but naturally, I thought the negative comments were from people who were let go under unfortunate circumstances. I was wrong. Everything you read on Glassdoor about Pixi is unfortunately true. There is no structure at this company. There’s no growth, unless you’re in “the family”. Here’s a list of lies (and false hopes I was promised) having one day WFH every other week Having a manager/ director lead a department Getting a promotion / raise after a verbal promise from upper management Summer Fridays Free product Instead, they started making us clock our time on time cards (even tho we’re salaried and not hourly). If you work overtime, they won’t pay you for this unless it’s “pre approved 2 weeks in advance” which they won’t actually ever approve. They’ll notably make fun of your ideas in meetings. They’ve literally held a company meeting that went over slides from upper management saying “Don’t misjudge our passion for rudeness” The founder, Petra, once brought the LA-based team in a room to have a meeting where she mentioned she could do all of our jobs with her eyes closed, and she would still “manage to do better than us.” HR can’t do anything, even tho the “chief of hr” (who isn’t actually involved with helping people) even talks poorly about “these unchangeable” ways. They keep this man employed solely because he knows too many bad omens the company can’t have exposed. Employees have brought up exclusively, as there are no darker shades. They don’t plan to release darker shades for the majority of their top-selling products. We only have 1 African-American employee. I repeat, 1. When we questioned benefits, the 32-year-old CEO mentioned we have occasional happy hours and an upcoming bowling trip. You’ll soon realize that the only benefits come to play after your 6pm clock out time. The CEO is the founder's son, who previously “worked on Wall Street” (although he didn’t actually, as he went to Irvine then went to a “Harvard” Masters program). He also has no notable passion (or knowledge) of the beauty industry. When something goes wrong. He’s ready to scream at anyone in hindsight and berate them in front of the office. Although he’s aggressive to be around, you’ll come to find he’s rarely in the office as he goes on bi-weekly luxury vacations with his younger girlfriend, as the entire office patiently awaits for him to come back as he’s the only person who can “approve” projects. Anyways, avoid Pixi. Save your time and your sanity.

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Pros

Gratis Team building events almost every month Open working space Office snacks and drinks Very Flexible Fun working environment Friendly Coworkers Room for Growth within the company Breakfast Fridays Summer Hours Owners really care about family life Company Pays for parking Nice location across from Century City Mall Very accomidating All events are so fun!

Cons

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Pros

Pixi products are great and you get a great discount

Cons

1. Doing the job of 2-4 people by yourself 2. When you have to stick up for yourself because you’re drowning they said you’ll have a tone 3. Instead of sitting down with you and flagging this to you they end up just letting you go 4. They’ll also do big department lunches and single ONE person out and say “they didn’t realize you weren’t there” 5. You think you can go to HR and things might help but turns out it does nothing 6. Once in a meeting it was said “the grass isn’t always greener on the other side” saying we should stay at least 6 months before we have it figured out etc - but can’t sit down with you and maybe give you a warning? 6. They’ll promise you a certain salary only after you completed a certain amount of time (aka because they know they have high turnover)

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