Disappointing - Anonymous employee Christie's Employee Review

For anyone considering applying for a position at the company that is not in the -Cataloguer - Specialist track please reconsider your application. I cannot emphasize this enough: the company does not value employees in the support or operations functions. Outside of the specialist track, you'll find an ecosystem that does not set up clear promotion plans, compensation plans, or general career guidance. Quite often even managers are unclear of what to tell their junior people regarding these areas. These positions are extremely sticky, and you'll find that once you start, transferring internally to a more interesting role for your interests is near impossible. HR is functionally useless and unaccommodating to your needs. They're mostly a show organization who's impact and sway is marginal, see company diversity statistics for confirmation. (to HR: please don't respond with some predictable, generic explanation, it's sad. Take the criticism and actually learn from it) If you are someone interested in the art market and feel that leveraging your competency in Operations, Finance, Tech, Client Service , Project Management at Christie's, I'd strongly advise against it. If you like the art market, take your skills and seek a role at one of the newer tech-based platforms in the space who will value your skills and pay you a livable wage. I'd add you'd probably have a rewarding time in the specialist track, but for the rest of us, it's a disappointment. They'll sell you a false bill of goods during the hiring process, then it's second class citizenry.