BaubleBar reviews

3.2

54% would recommend to a friend

(92 total reviews)

Amy Jain

42% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

BaubleBar has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 92 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BaubleBar employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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92 reviews
5.0
Feb 4, 2015

The Good, The Bad, The Better

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I have been working for BaubleBar since 2014 and I am extremely happy here. Not only do I feel valued by my co-workers, but I also feel valued by my direct manager, the key stakeholders and the Co-Founders. It is a very collaborative environment where you bounce ideas off each other and that is why you have such a fantastic organic growth and strong culture. What I like most is that I am not micro-managed, but there is always someone who can give you advice/suggestions if needed. I know it is ok to make mistakes, as long as you have an entrepreneurial attitude where you give it your all until you find that solution. I know I have some amazing growth opportunities here and I'm excited to see where I am headed with BaubleBar. Other Pros: - People really care about a good work/life balance here. We all work really hard but we also get some breathers during regular happy hours and team activities. - Employees who have been with the company are not feeling attacked by new employees who take over some of their responsibilities (new departments are being build). In fact, employees who have worn many hats over the past years are very excited that they can give some of those responsibilities to the experts and focus on what they really want. - Of course the free jewelry.

Cons

With every company there are a few cons, but let's face it: No one is perfect! And in a startup environment everyone learns how to improve on a daily basis. It is just that you have to evaluate what weighs more... the pros or the cons. I wouldn't call the points below cons, but things that we need to work on: - Everyone works really hard, really long hours and the vacation policy doesn't match up to that - Priorities of key stakeholders change quickly - Not enough processes in place - Sometimes the expectations are too high - Office is getting cramped due to growth

1.0
Feb 2, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There aren't any unless you enjoy working in an unprofessional high school environment.

Cons

No heat, poor and unsafe working conditions, lack of security.

1.0
Jan 31, 2015

The worst place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free jewelry Overtime always offered when holidays arrive

Cons

Management has no inclination as to what they are doing. Everyday someone is fired. Literally it's a ghost town in there. They went from over 100 employees to 15 in a matter of 3 weeks. It has nothing to do with the holiday season being over either. Employees are lucky if there is any heat in there too. Some days it's hot other days it's cold. Every day people come in there fearing for their job and safety. Honestly no one cares about anyone health or livelihood at that establishment. There are people smoking illegal substances such as weed in the locker rooms and taking hard core drugs in the bathroom, supervisors and staff drinking liquor. This happens everyday. If anyone walks into the locker rooms you feel like you will die. Your head spins, your heart beats faster, you begin to sweat profusely, and feel like you are going into panic mode. The smell is horrendous. It's as if the people that are smoking the weed mixed it with other illegal narcotics. You speak to management about the ordeal and they absolutely do nothing whatsoever. They only care about getting the orders out. You can be nauseous and vomiting from all the smoke fumes and dust at this establishment and no one cares. When you call out or ask to leave early cause you are sick or have to take off because if a family emergency, management becomes extremely volatile and bitter towards you. They use manipulative tactics to fire you. Also people will break into your locker and steal your money, metrocards and anything they can get their hands on. Nothing is safe in there. Sad part is that there are cameras everywhere. Management only take control when their safety is at stake or when they don't want a lawsuit. Over 3 weeks ago an employee of baublebar almost got bludgeoned to death with a hammer. That was the only time management wanted to look out for the staff safety because the employee came after them with the hammer as well. The company (if that's what you would like to call it) is a high school drama filled mad house. There are too many so called team leads, managers, and supervisors in there. None of them have no enthusiasm, skills, responsibility, dignity respect, and leadership to be in charge of anything or anyone for that matter. I would have never in a million years thought I would work with such manipulative, evil, condescending, sabotaging people in my life. Animals have more respect than those people at Baublebar. My co-workers will literally frame and sabotage you just to get a promotion to save their useless job. What do I mean by useless? Well the hourly rate at this run down shack pays $10/hr. Anyone would think that this so called prestigious company would pay more for doing 3 jobs at once. As a fulfillment Associate you have to conduct Quality Control of the jewelry, ship the items, and pack them in a certain time frame and make sure the order is perfect. Everyone must be fast and diligent. But the jewelry is cheap and not of good quality and their shipping system is trash. Every 5 secs the system crashes but yet management, team leads, and the CEO ridicules and belittles you for not having a ton of orders to ship. Baublebar is a contradiction. They claim to provide the best and affordable jewelry but yet their jewelry is cheap and breaks the minute you receive it and costs 3x as much. Anyone can buy the same jewelry from a vendor on a street corner or at a department store for half their asking price and it will look better and last a lifetime. The tactics that they use to fix their jewelry is underhanded and downright immoral. Let's just say that the staff and employees use the same household products that can be found in your bathroom and kitchen or at an art supply store to repair the damage goods. They use manipulative tactics to fire you. The company is a mess. There are too many so called bosses but not any leaders. Even the CEO is not capable of running that company. What's even worse is that management implemented a nonsense rule called (3 strikes) which is 3 orders errors and you are fired. If you are shipping, packing and QCing over 80-100 orders a day and not to mention QCing international and expedited orders everyone should be entitled to make a mistake. Management does not take into consideration the hard work that people do. Also when you have order errors they want to make it seem like ours your fault if the jewelry brakes. The jewelry is cheap and very bad quality what do you expect if you are purchasing your jewelry in bulk from a foreign country. Management uses you to their advantage and disposes you like trash. They also promote people in there that have no credentials whatsoever. People in there fight you and use manipulative tactics to get to the top of nothing. Everyone in there really think that they will get far in that company. That's a joke. It's sad that people will be so ruthless to keep a $10/hr especially in the age bracket they are in. Majority of the people that work there are between the ages of 29-50, with 2 percent between the ages of 18-28. Majority of the people being evil and manipulative for their jobs are the older people. People in there are forging other people names on orders, creating nonsense drama, with holding orders from you when it's slow, creating lies and drama to get you fired. You speak to management about how you have over 20 order errors in a 2 week span time they state you need to be careful when checking the items. You directly speak to them about people forging your name on items and they don't care or bother to look into the matter. Baublebar is a downward spiral into disaster. No one career at that place will go beyond Baublebar.

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BaubleBar Response
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I hope readers will have the wisdom to see that this is the libelous rant of a disgruntled worker and probably an ex-employee. We ask readers to understand that while no company is perfect the claims detailed here are ludicrous and in no way representative of the work life we believe we offer to our valued and conscientious distribution center employees.
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