River Island Clothing Reviews

Cons

no cons at all with working there

Cons

Store Managers that have gone on too long

Cons

It was a bit slow at times (often on Sundays) and then manic whenever the sale was on, but that's retail for you!

Cons

None that i can think of

Cons

Unless you've lost a limb, expect to be interrogated upon calling in sick, or made to feel like you're letting the team down for not going in. Pay lower than some other retailers. Not sure if still the case, but "level 2's" (i.e. one above sales assistant, one below manager) get paid about 15p more an hour than the standard sales assistant. This being said, pros definitely outweight the cons if you are just looking for a part time job at uni. If you are pursuing full time career in retail, look elsewhere.

Cons

- 3 month, non-negotiable notice period due to high employee turnover (I assume);

- No probationary period - Once you're in, you're in. I put this as a con because if you don't like it, you *may* be in it 3 months;

- The engineering team is treated as an IT consultancy by the business, so be ready for what typically bad comes along with that (got to keep the "stakeholders" happy!);

- You're likely (as an engineer) to spend a lot of your time in business meetings rather than developing yourself technically (writing code, design, etc);

- Teams don't seem to be empowered to do things, rather the calls come from the higher-ups;

- Team ownership seems non-existent, apart from when stuff breaks;

- Software architects, which design projects and take tech decisions for them as well. Usually, they choose managed services from AWS so your job as a Software Engineer is to implement what they tell you to and write glue code between managed services and business logic, which makes your work feel not impactful, underwhelming and uninteresting, in my opinion - You're not working on solving problems, you're just a code monkey;

- Engineering culture seems to be non-existent;

- You might be expected to work in both Shoreditch and Hanger Lane offices;

- Everything bad you'd expect from your typical corporate culture;

- In the Shoreditch office, there's seemingly absolutely no food provided to you - there is a ziptap and a coffee machine;

- Working hours are 9:30 am to 5:30 pm and they don't seem flexible;

- Lunch break is 30 minutes long;

- My interview process was not very good - They didn't outline key pieces of information that I described above, such as the fact that I'd be expected to be in different offices during the week and what I'd be working on, and they consistently oversold (imo) the position and the culture/environment.

In conclusion, I found all of these out by myself and wrote them here so you don't have to. If you're a person that doesn't like process, BS or politics, maybe take a miss on this one.

Cons

Sometimes they forget to give you breaks but other than that it was a really good place to work

Cons

Like any retail job, the festive period is always tough

Cons

- chaotic and disorganised software delivery process
- don't treat contractors properly
- inflexible - ie do not let you work from home and make a fuss if you need to

Cons

-Gets very busy during peak times e.g. Christmas and sales.