Lands' End reviews

Definite hierarchy of worker-bee class and those who "escaped" --meaning supervisory management (this was actually said to me by one such "escapee") Was held back from moving to other positions which better matched my skills because of politics and "business need". Lots of stress and pressure for people trying to cya...Nice people, just often put into bad situations where they have to be a bit cut throat. Very passive, though. They won't do so to your face usually, mostly behind your back. Moral is low (but most will only be honest about this behind closed doors or after they have left). Creates a constant talent drain. People come to Dodgeville for a few years or for life. Those are the 2 extremes. It can be a great place to expand your resume and then move on or to settle in for the long haul.

Stressful and abusive. The worse abuser, a SVP, was fired after one year on the job, but not before he did terrible damage to the company and to people working for him. I remember the day he addressed his dozen-or-so direct reports. He said, "Do you know why you're all so unhappy? It's because before I came, you were all incompetent but didn't know it. Now you are incompetent and you do know it. Knowing you're incompetent makes you unhappy."