Pros
The only pro of working for Belk Corporate was the 20% off employee discount at Belk stores.
Cons
I was in a management position on Belk's Ecommerce team; however, I was rarely empowered to make decisions or lead my team in any meaningful way. I had the president of the company along with an executive vice president, senior vice presidents and directors giving specific creative direction that they expected me to simply echo to my team to execute on the website, even when this direction was not consistent with industry best practices. There is an institutional lack of knowledge and understanding of the roles, responsibilities and processes needed to successfully operate a user experience team. They would often hire people who have the skills and knowledge to improve things; however, leadership then feels threatened by their knowledge, so they supress people's abilities to positively impact the team. Inevitably, the good people become frustrated and move on to go work somewhere else. People who don't move on to other companies are generally unhappy in their jobs and/or working under extreme stress and pressure. Goals and expectations are poorly communicated, and there is no vision for the Ecommerce team, at least there hasn't been one communicated to the team. I wouldn't recommend to anyone that they go work for Belk on the corporate side. I shared these concerns with HR, and they merely acknowledged their awareness of these issues while confessing they don't believe they'll improve any time soon b/c the executives aren't going anywhere. The icing on the cake is that Belk pays their employees about $0.50 - $0.70 on the dollar.
