Christie's reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(744 total reviews)

Bonnie Brennan

100% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Christie's has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 744 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Christie's employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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744 reviews
3.0
Feb 23, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing art, interesting colleagues, better than Sotheby’s

Cons

Superficial adherence to change only, systemic practices of low pay and lip service to work/life/family balance practices mean that diversity and inclusion, along with promotion of working mothers, severely lags. There is a strong culture of facetime, even during pandemic shutdown, which makes Christie’s non competitive with other companies for the best talent. Finally, a clear thread of favoritism runs through most promotions and opportunities with sr management turning a blind eye to poor behavior.

2.0
Aug 31, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

access to art and camaraderie with other junior employees

Cons

terrible pay, little opportunity for career growth, toxic masculinity in some specialist departments leads to low margin returns, management acts like they are listening and then slashes headcount so you are responsible for more work and not fairly compensated in exchange. Do not expect that you will make any money at the junior level even though you are responsible for orchestrating millions of dollars of sales.

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Christie's Response
5y
Thank you for providing your thoughts, we do take your concerns seriously. Regarding your comment about pay, the Compensation package at Christie’s includes not only a base salary and a highly generous employee benefits package, as well as significant paid time off and other work life balance benefits. We try to work diligently with our junior staff to equip them for growth and mobility in the organization. This affords employees an upward trajectory through development opportunities and mentorship from the best art experts. We would love to hear more about your feedback, please feel free to email our HR Team at myHR-Americas@christies.com. We are pleased that you approve of our CEO, had the opportunity to access art and that there was a camaraderie with your colleagues. We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all the best with your future endeavours.
1.0
Aug 16, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Get to see great art

Cons

Employees are treated very badly by colleagues as well as clients.

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Christie's Response
5y
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We are very sorry to hear that you were treated badly by your colleagues and clients, this is completely unacceptable, and we really hope that you did not feel this way for the duration of your time with us. One of our core values is respect, creating an environment where everyone can contribute to make Christie’s the best employer in the art market, therefore we hope you contacted your regional HR office so that this could be escalated and dealt with appropriately.
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