No work-life balance, no personal growth, expected to work over 40+ hours a week on salary and get no compensation or comp days. Assistant buyers asked to work in stores as part of "training" however you will still have to go during any major Holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Mothers Day weekend, Fathers day weekend, and then starting in July for back to school. Expected to work Saturdays during those peak periods. Be prepared to travel a lot to visit all the different stores and be prepared to get a days notice that you have to take a flight somewhere the next day. Visiting the stores isn't what you are doing--you are working in them, pushing out freight from the back room and putting it onto the floor. Old systems that could crash any day if you even log out improperly. No real allocation tools to allocate merchandise properly. Assistant buyers are not actual assistant buyers, their buyers assistants: clericals. They handle all paperwork such as PO's, vendor calls, vendor appointments, do all the allocations to the stores, work in stores, expected to be able to travel at the drop of a dime, if you are lucky you will attend the market maybe once or twice your whole time you are at the company, dress models for seasonal photo shoots, comp shop, deal with all warehouse issues daily. No real training program for new assistants, the current assistants have to train the new assistants because upper management doesn't have the time nor patience to do it. If you are looking for a job that is more hands on with the product this is not the job for you.
