Be wary of the waters you tred... - Analyst-Home Office Bath & Body Works Employee Review

2.0
Aug 10, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great product, very customer-centric; fun and friendly associates-especially stores. Loved getting free product to try, great way to spur new customers and share with family/friends. Loved location, great distance for travel; great café (the staff there is the best) Amazing DC/Supply Chain partners - they work harder than most people realize. The CEO is great, very open, honest, friendly and funny - charismatic chap with a way to make you feel optimistic, despite the frustrations that drown you.

Cons

NOT COMPETITIVE WITH PAY - do your research and know what you are worth. CULTURE IS SHIFTING - and not in a good way - too many great people have left and with that talent level is shifting....people are smart but very cut-throat, its turning into Victoria's Secret. LACK OF EMPATHY - most senior leaders are like robots - they don't care about anything but the bottom line - and if you get in there way you are out. It's one thing to be a leader in the industry, but another to treat people like slaves - whether they are in stores or in the home office. Sometimes they forget what it is like to be in a store or at the bottom, and have such high expectations it is unrealistic. Oh - and that work/life balance you want? Nope - looks elsewhere - there is no down time, regardless of which department you are in.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Learning & Development within Human Resources was a very ambiguous field to work in. Management left me chasing my tail and sent me down rabbit holes they later scolded me for pursuing. There was one instance where I had to update Onboarding materials, I was told to use a specific font and to reach out to Marketing to obtain the font. Marketing told me that font was retired and I could use a variety of other fonts. My Manager told me "no you're going to use that font," I had no access to that font and she would not do anything to help grant me access to that font, I needed Adobe Pro installed on my computer to obtain the retired font, and she did not approve the budget request for me to get it installed. I had to go through IT to obtain a work around that she did not help with at all. I'm not sure if it was a test or what in the world she was doing, but it was that kind of indirect, weird, almost non sequitur responses from her while trying to deal with a simple request of utilizing the correct font that continued while working with her. "What do you want to work on?" I would explain what I wanted to work on. "Well no, that wouldn't be good at all, that would be a complete waste of time." I had a stellar experience working with the Learning & Development team in the Distribution Centers for 2.5 years, but moving to the Home Office space was a complete 360, from comfort and encouragement, to ambiguity and cold shoulders from leadership.

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