The Most Dishonest & Disorganized Company You'll Ever Work For - Anonymous employee Fossil Group Employee Review

1.0
Mar 29, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are a lot of shiny things that they use to lure you (employee discounts, a gym, decent looking office, etc.)

Cons

Fossil is a great company to work for if you're looking for something that will inhibit your growth and dull your expertise. The entire work environment at HQ is suffocated by superficial arrogance, where employees are hired or given opportunities based on their personality or appearances and not by talent or performance. Sales are down and the business as a whole is suffering, likely due to the internal inefficiencies that cause multiple issues and pain points across the organization. Everyone is in denial of this, and all anyone cares about is individual success instead of meeting the needs of the business or acting with a purpose. You'll constantly have to take the fall for bad decisions and unclear direction that is given by upper management. No one is held accountable or takes any responsibility for the actions they make. Be prepared to carry the weight of others, while everyone else takes 'work' trips and spends unnecessary company dollars. Fossil is also a great place if you're looking to live in the dark ages. They use antiquated technology and old business practices that inhibit success and growth within the organization. Business decisions are typically made based on emotion or how someone is feeling but hardly ever made based on data and knowledge. The majority (if not all) of the company's resources and work hours are allocated towards making sure everything looks pretty. The amount of time employees spend on aesthetics is both astonishing and just outright comical. Promotions are swept under the rug, people don't communicate with each other, and everyone constantly changes their mind based on a whim or just personal preference. No one has decorum or really seems to care much about anything.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Company events are always fun. (Halloween is insane in the best way.) On-site gym, Starbucks, cafeteria with pretty good food. The employee sales and deep-discounts are really nice. Central Station is a really nice, pretty building with a parking garage.

Cons

Lots of micromanagement and unnecessary approval steps before anything can move forward; resulting in any changes moving at a glacial pace and often stalling for months and even years. Fossil manages and designs by committee and the HiPPO in the room always wins with little regard to facts and data. There's little communication at all levels of the company. Teams are extremely siloed and there's a complete lack of direction. It's also not unusual for leadership or stakeholders to flip-flop on their decisions. One meeting, they'll approve something; then turn around and claim they never saw or approved it. Then suddenly they liked the way it was, which they had been claiming never to have seen before. It's frustrating and defeating. Advancement and growth opportunities are very limited and often based on favoritism. There's almost zero recognition or metrics to demonstrate your worth. "Restructuring" and staff reductions happen regularly throughout the year and always in small batches to fly under the WARN act. They usually don't even acknowledge or comment on the layoffs internally either. It's as if they hope they did it quietly enough that no one will notice. Meanwhile, morale is practically nonexistent as everyone is always waiting for the next layoff and spends most of their time with their heads down. If they acknowledge the layoffs at all, they'll assure the company that they're "right-sized now" or that they're "done with layoffs" and then do it again.

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