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Lifetime Brands

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A textbook case of everything wrong with Corporate America - Anonymous employee Lifetime Brands Employee Review

1.0
Nov 18, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

When they hire you with a fresh AA degree in Marketing from NCC, it's almost impossible to get fired, providing you show up in the mornings. From there, you learn what you can (with no mentoring) and move on. Some of their past exec's laughingly referred to Lifetime as a "stepping stone to success." But if "free bagels on Fridays" is enough incentive to work there ... then you deserve to work there.

Cons

For entry level management, you're tossed into the deep end of the pool and you either sink or swim. If you swim, you get to do the work of lazy, incompetent and insecure supervisors, who themselves are terrified for their jobs and would happily throw their own children to the wolves to keep it. So if things go right - they take the credit and if things go wrong, you get the blame. Knowledgeable, experienced professionals are quickly marginalized by their superiors, since it doesn't take much to make them look bad.

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5.0
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Pros

9-5 hours, Friendly environment, basic benifits

Cons

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3.0
Nov 18, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The job involves wearing many hats, making the daily tasks diverse and engaging. A great place to develop strong skills in cross-functional communication, acting as the critical middleman between Sales, Marketing, and Operations.

Cons

Sadly, the compensation for this role is significantly below the industry standard for a Category or Product Manager with comparable responsibilities. There is no room to grow beyond a certain point, and there seems to be a lack of awareness of the efforts and quality of work that middle roles, such as a category manager, provide. Most of the grace goes to the salespeople who typically receive all of the information from people in our position. With the increasing lack of value placed on this role, there has been a slow decline in output due to unrealistic expectations paired with thankless and minimal rewards. People have left, been let go, and those left are burning out.

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