Chinese business culture lives up to its bad reputation - Anonymous employee SHEIN Employee Review

2.0
14 Oct 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great team atmosphere, everyone willing to help and contribute.

Cons

Expectations. Four different titles on one person without a team to help. Extreme working days 10-12 hours. No internal processes for anything, all projects ad-hoc and briefs sent from HQ in one sentence of projects with deadlines often to be end-of-day (like write a whole campaign copy for a campaign you have not been involved in - even if your role is something completely different to a copywriter. Barely no induction to company and very different organisation and environment than working for an European company. Communications with HQ very hard because of culture and language barrier. And no one ever put their cameras on in meetings, very odd

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Pros

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Cons

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27 Apr 2026
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Pros

The company was growing pretty fast and had a startup like pace, until the tariffs happened. SHEIN’s pace slowed down a lot and the company pivoted to cost optimization

Cons

1) company’s leadership, especially the US leadership lacks vision and creates a toxic work culture by constantly belittling people in open and yelling at them. 2) the small group of top leaders almost behave like high school bullies colluding with each other 3) you’ll struggle to survive, let alone succeed, if you don’t speak Chinese. 4) Sheins compensation is significantly below industry peers 5) Daily late night calls with the China team mean a non existent work life balance. You are expected to be available at all times, including late night and weekends

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