Newegg Reviews

Talk People here are so bored that they salivate at any tiny possible rumor about others. I've never seen a workforce so interested in what is happening to other people. You'll be the last person to know anything bad about you. It's the exact opposite of clear and constructive feedback. To this day, I still can't understand the benefit of collecting and building a secret case against a peer and submitting it to their superior vs. talking directly to the peer hoping to help them out in their career. It's a poisonous concept and unfortunately, instead of being discouraged, the snakes are rewarded with favoritism (see Cancer Cells next). Cancer Cells In a body, cancer cells are basically cells that multiply without control and have no function, but damage healthy cells and organs. Over time, people die because the ratio of cancer cells is too great, causing system failure. In a company, it's the same thing. Every company has its share of cancer - those employees who really shouldn't be there and create little value, but are protected or favored by higher cancer cell employees. A great company, like Google for example, might have 1 cancer cell for every 20 healthy cells. The body (company if you will) can survive like this and maybe even thrive, carrying the dead cancer weight with them to prosperity. Here though, the ratio is something like 3 cancer cells out of 5. There are so many cancer cells in leadership positions who don't understand that you can't save all cancer cells. They don't compromise on it, and instead they just transfer people around who should have been let go years ago; people who have little professional capability outside of this company. This company would be much healthier if they tried to get the ratio back to at least 1 cancer cell per 3 healthy cells. It's probably too late though, and the problem is, when it's time to cut costs, leaders look at their team and think hmm... I have these 3 cancer cells and 1 healthy cell, but the 3 are my hand-picked people from China. Healthy cell, you gotta go. Considering the amount of dead weight in this company, I actually think there are some very strong people here keeping the whole ship afloat. "Leadership" I have the word in quotes because it's not quite the leadership you think. People are put in leadership positions (I was one of them) and then talked to like children. I was asked to select members of my team for scheduled training and then overridden later on scheduling. Childish things are measured alongside actual metrics. Perception far out-weighs performance, and if your performance is good, your boss will say "he can do even more" to limit your growth. Meanwhile, you've out-performed your entire team of both healthy and cancer cells, but you "can do even more". When a senior level manager provides this as feedback, I question their ability to process in a general sense the effectiveness of their subordinates. My answer to them is "hey, are you sure you're not the one who can do more? Because it seems like you can do 'morer' than I can." It calls to mind one of the dumbest slogans in recent memory - 99 Ranch Market's (also Chinese): "For 100 We Try Harder". Uh.. you picked your own name. Meaningless. Reality Distortion Your relationship with NE will resemble a bad marriage. They'll try their best to make you feel like you're worth very little in the industry, and that you have a lot to learn. They want you to believe that nobody wants you, and you're stuck here. They want you to think that you're ugly, dumb, and lucky that they gave you a job when you're actually beautiful and smart. It's like the story of Cinderella for some here. They'll abuse you until you decide to leave, and then they will offer you a lot to save the marriage - more pay, transfers, promotions, title changes. But by then, it's always too late. The love's gone. (By the way, don't take those offers. You really think they'll keep you around if you stick around after threatening to leave?). I'm not sure if this is all a concerted strategy by top mgmt. or if they are really so blind that they can't figure out which employees are ACTUALLY stuck here, and which choose to be here. Making the mistake of thinking everyone is stuck here leaves you with only one result - you get to keep everyone who's stuck here. Bye.

Leaving NeweggBusiness was one of the best things I’ve ever done for my health. For starters, I was constantly stressed because of their lack of organization and clarity. They did have many “trainings”, however they were all so unclear or contradictory that I couldn’t retain much information. I also did not feel supported or encouraged by anyone at all, although I did feel that one of my Sales Managers did try. I think he was unsuccessful at it because he wasn’t getting the support that he needed for himself, either. I felt that nobody acknowledged me as a person either because we did not share similar interests, or because I was not interested in participating in their office gossip. Because I was practically invisible to everyone, I witnessed a lot of people “talk behind one-another’s backs” and continue to maintain a facade of friendship with one another. This happened at all levels in that office, which was one of the many reasons why I didn’t feel that I could trust anyone that I worked with. Even the company events felt like a poor attempt to disguise how awful it was to work there. This job was pretty awful overall. The stress of working in a toxic environment weighed down on me nearly every day. I almost never felt happy nor respected, and I felt that I didn’t belong.