Terrible Office Politics -- Poor Management (Gossips, No Respect, No Life Balance) - Anonymous employee See's Candies Employee Review

1.0
May 3, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Got supportive IT team - You can eat as much as chocolates as you want in the kitchen - Most people got nice heart

Cons

- Very old / vintage building structure (not like SF downtown office buildings) - No appreciation, No Respect for your efforts - They don't care what's the realistic time for projects, no one can say "no" or "need more time" -- Manager would make you read the job description to blame on you for not able to handle multiple projects -- she would say everything is easy, she's helping you grow -- but you never see her doing anything and she keeps making mistakes at Photoshop - Very vintage creative style - No realistic training - the manager only gave intro but doesn't tell you difference of the various brands, she expects people to go figure out and likes to say "you put the project in risk" when you've tried hard enough without training - Got super slow digital management tool, always had to download huge files - Terrible Management -- created terrible ticket system, worse than working at factories - Process the manager set for doing projects and reviews' not efficient - Daily morning meetings were wasting time - Don't tell realistic job duties until your first day (such as go to stores to work on valentine's day, christmas, special event for Buffett, don't tell you that you have to set 30-min. interviews with many people in many departments while giving you a lot of tight deadlines in the beginning... keep you unaware of many things, too much sudden things that were not mention in job description nor interviews.) - You have to work outside the room that your boss and other manager's gossiping about you, you have to listen while trying to focus on tight-deadline projects - Don't care about employee's work-life balance - Don't care about employee's health

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5.0
Jul 7, 2026
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Pros

This was the best part time job I ever had! Everyone was super nice, the hours were great and it was nice chatting with the customers.

Cons

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1.0
May 30, 2026
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Pros

The team at store level is great to work with.

Cons

If you have family, you have absolutely no holiday time to enjoy to be with them if you work at store level. Corporate gets to be with their families but yet they expect you to stop living your life just for them. You are not allowed to take any vacation time during holiday season only during summer. But then when summer comes, they expect you to still be there because they have you doing 1000 inventories 1000 unnecessary conference calls and many unnecessary projects. Corporate does not take any accountability when something goes wrong. They constantly blame store level to fix their problems. Communication is horrible and organization is horrible. If you like, giving up your life and living for Sees Candies this job might be for you.

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