Terrible Management and Direction in Corporate Offices
Pros
- snacks, coffee, beer, sometimes free food from test kitchen - people are friendly and some teams are close and will hang out outside of work (depends which one though) - employee discount on product - you end up having to learn a lot (which is a good thing, though a result of a bad thing) because there's a ton to do - 401K
Cons
- terrible work life balance, they make you feel like you're committing a cardinal sin by leaving work before 6pm every day (doesn't matter what time you get in). - management is honestly terrible at managing, even at the associate director level and above, the vast majority demonstrate no understanding whatsoever of how to motivate, mentor, or train employees. oftentimes people have found themselves in positions where they have to train their manager on things they should have already known. - turnover extremely high on certain teams, and then they hire incompetent people to backfill because they need the headcount for the work. but quality of everything seems to be constantly decreasing because you don't have actually skilled employees doing the work they're just attempting to stopgap things on the fly. - no significant career growth, the company will hire people right above others so every position seems like it's capped. - there is no opportunity to learn other skill sets because you're always so overwhelmed doing your own job due to lack of training/skill and headcount and training your manager, and putting out fires, and responding to people as to why HelloFresh hasn't paid an overdue invoice for 3 months - day to day work is monotonous and leaves no room for creativity or growth. every day you either have to just cut costs in operations or cut acquisition costs in marketing. everything every day is sell more boxes, sell more boxes, how can we sell more boxes, why did it cost us this much to sell more boxes?? - management will often try to delude you into thinking the company is doing amazingly but they're hiring just as many people as the people who are leaving, there are constant quality issues with the product, the only reason we're gaining marketshare is because other people are losing and the industry is consolidating right now but the product is way too expensive, the customer churn rate is ridiculously high because no one wants to continue to pay $60 A WEEK just to not have to go to the grocery store and google a recipe.
