Be Warned - Sales Assistant Safavieh LLC Employee Review

1.0
Oct 19, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The only pros I can think of is the exposure to working on high growth big-name accounts and an okay work life balance.

Cons

It does not takes a genius to see that Safavieh's Glassdoor page is being flooded with 5-star reviews around the same time period because management wants to hide the truth about what is going on at this company and boost its overall rating. This company has a lot of potential given its power in the industry but be warned that "family-owned" means no upward mobility if you're not part of the family. You will be treated like you're dispensable so much so that there are stories about how there were people who asked for raises but were let go instead. The family aka management only cares about their bottom line. The pay is below industry average with little to no negotiation that doesn't even keep up with the rate of inflation. There was also a brief time when they banned people from listening to music and using earbuds, claiming it was a distraction to the employee using it. Due to uproar, they uplifted this ban and has allowed it again as long as it was "used appropriately." This is just one example of the archaic feudal-serf dynamic that operates at this company. This company calls itself "a high tech corporation." There's nothing high-tech about this place. The internet is blocked except the sites that you need for your job. You can't even check the weather if you wanted to. The internal system looks like it was made in the 90s and breaks down often. When it breaks down, it affects all its operations globally. How this huge flaw in its business doesn't scare management to revamping its system is shocking. I don't even want to get into this company's lack of concern for their employees during this ongoing COVID crisis. You can read the other reviews on Glassdoor about it.

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