High turnover rate, don't promote - Design Operations Assistant Haddad Brands Employee Review

1.0
Jun 30, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The employees seem to like it and there were decent benefits. There was good diversity

Cons

They start at 8:30. The Manager has a windowless office like a closet which is not something I'd strive for after 10 years at a company and shows how they value you. Huge red flag was the age of all of the assistants and the amount of time they had been with the company. Assistant is a position for early 20s, then you're supposed to get a salary and title bump to associate after 2-3 years in the fashion industry but they had much older employees working lower levels. There was also a huge NDA with the offer letter preventing you from working at just about every company in existence -which I have yet to see if they enforce. I understand confidentiality but preventing you from getting another job was another red flag. They also still use teams for everything instead of in person meetings when majority of employees are in office. it is much harder to learn a computer program that way or get the daily social interaction humans need. They initially reached out about an assistant designer position then told me there were no design positions available. Were dishonest about the job description and told me the position would have some creativity involved and working with design so I would take it. Fired me after a week for it being a bad fit instead of switching me to the design team or letting me work on it. There was an open asst designer position on their website listed a week after firing. They said I wasn't passionate about the role but it's writing charts all day who would be? It's a job for money and I was doing a good job for money to live.

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5.0
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Pros

Pretty Good relationships with coworkers

Cons

A lot of workload short deadlines

1.0
May 8, 2026
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Pros

The holiday party. Oh wait, it’s on a Tuesday or Wednesday so no one can truly enjoy themselves, so nevermind! Absolutely no pros.

Cons

If I could change one thing in my life, it would be working at Haddad Brands. Coming straight out of college and it being your first job, you truly have no idea how warped working there is. The delusion and greed of the family should be studied-the workload and how they treat their employees is inhumane and honestly disgusting. A crash course is the hours are 8:30-5:30-giving them an extra hour of your life for absolutely no reason. You’re looked down upon if you take a break or step out, even just for a minute. You sit in a jail cell, with no windows, for 9 hours a day-elbow to elbow with the person next to you-and cameras watching and tracking your every move. The Haddads actively work to fire people (don’t be mistaken I wasn’t one of those people-getting a new job was probably one of the best days of my life)-who they consider to be ‘C Class Players’ which is anyone who doesn’t dedicate blood, sweat, tears and overtime to them. All you do is make them money but when it comes time for raises, promotions, benefits etc., they can’t put their money where their mouth is. The work is genuinely not even close to manageable-no matter how hard you work-and everything is under a microscope and scrutiny. The work from home days that have now dwindled into basically zero is laughable and there is no work life balance whatsoever. Just know that if you work at Haddad, you will be worked like a dog-no ifs, ands or buts.

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