Specifically Lauren Brand.. - Associate Designer Ralph Lauren Employee Review

4.0
Jan 31, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The discount is sick and obviously the clothing is amazing. My immediate boss was fantastic she taught me a lot- my team was like family.

Cons

Well the huge layoffs they had in 2015 was a huge bummer. Made the company moral very low. For many months we were all terrified of losing our jobs. Everyday we would look around and our team got smaller. And they just gave us more and more work. More work mostly because the specific brand we were working for was under going a bit of a revolution and design was at odds with merchandising so- long story short that results in design being forced to change styles sometimes more than enough times before we hit showroom. And then when we would hit showroom, everyone would panic and we would make 101 changes all over again. Most mentally exhausting job I've ever had. To do the same thing over and over and over for months for it to ultimately be changed back to what you originally designed. Literally killed my soul. Then they let my boss go and dumped everything on me. Sent me into panic, thats when I knew I had to leave.

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5.0
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Pros

Employees enjoy comprehensive welfare programs and a generally favorable working environment.

Cons

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1.0
Jul 13, 2026
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Pros

Discounted coffee, insurance, some hardworking co workers.

Cons

The first West Coast location of Ralph’s Coffee Newport Beach is the worst place I've ever worked. Under the management of David Peterson, people work short-staffed very often, and his working style is very passive, and his timing is terrible. I don't know why they made him manager without proven experience and a lack of leadership. Chronic understaffing paired with a manager who avoids weekends, holidays, and difficult conversations creates a compounding problem staff burnout rises, morale drops, and unaddressed poor performers make things worse for everyone else. The irony is that understaffing often ends up costing the business more through overtime, turnover, and lost productivity than fixing it would but he they never try to fix it.

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