Pros
>The people are great. Best part of the company. >Casual dress code. >The company tries its best to "give back." Always proud to say this. >I genuinely think the CEO is a great guy, just a little lost with the company's direction and has a disconnect with others. >Exciting to be surrounded around lots of interesting items. >Did I mention that the people are awesome?
Cons
>Location. The walk from the subway to the offices is HORRIBLE. Worst part of my day. Also, have fun finding a decent place to eat for lunch. >They pretend they care about work-life balance - but in the end, they honestly don't. >The company has an identity crisis. They want to appeal to everyone. Marketing 101: choose your audience! >They don't pay their full time employees the amount a NYC professional should be paid. Several people leave the company and find a job in that same field in NYC for 10-20k more. They lowball you as much as possible. They do a lot of talk about bringing up the minimum wage for hourly workers (which is great) but when it comes to their full time employees - it's like pulling teeth to just get a simple increase in pay. Loyalty of staying with the company for years means nothing to them - they would rather let you go, hire someone else who accepts the low ball salary - before giving you the salary you deserve. (Also heard this from multiple people from different departments.) I'm sure they give all their higher up managers a decent pay because if they leave everything would go crazy. But everyone else...peanuts. >They don't take risks at all. There's a lot of "we should do this and that" but "this and that" never, ever happens. It's all talk. >The website is very old fashioned compared to other e-commerce sites. The creative team does a great job with images and the direction they receive, but in the end, the overall template is very bland. >They want to market towards a younger audience but won't make any major changes to the type of products they curate and the marketing strategies aren't very dynamic. >Individual face-to-face time with employees are great but for some reason during the day when everyone is sitting together at their desks the mood is very awkward and gloomy. >A huge part of their profit is still dependent on catalogs. A bit bizarre and scary. >I would recommend this place to a friend only if they didn't have any other great prospects. But with that recommendation, I would have about 20 warnings along with it.
