Living Spaces reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(913 total reviews)
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Grover Geiselman

75% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Living Spaces has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 913 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Living Spaces employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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913 reviews
1.0
Feb 15, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

-Free food on weekends -Some team members were great to work with -Lots of hours if you can sell -Pay on a weekly basis.

Cons

-The job is not a commission based job yet they treat it as if it is one by reminding you that you need to hit quota and making you do a bunch of useless math as if that is going to motivate you to sell more. If you want to motivate a salesman put a commission system that is based on his performance. I would sell 9k in furniture yet I would get paid the same as someone who sold the bare minimum for the for the day, that infuriated me off more than anything since they would get on you as soon as they noticed your sales slow down. -If you have sales experience ask for 18 hourly don't settle for a low pay unless this is your first job, you will quickly find out the negatives of this job as soon a step on the floor with your radio on. -Management needs to be held accountable for the stressful work environment on the sales floor. There's a constant disrespect across the radio on the sales floor that made a lot of good workers leave on the same week they got hired, including me.

2.0
Jun 22, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

free weekend food and mostly nice coworkers

Cons

Phony ethical pronouncements from upper management. Carefree warranty program is a scam. Bay area stores take in over $150,00 a month in premiums, but customer who called for service in 2017 was told he had to wait 6 weeks for a repair because they only have 1 repairman in the bay area. They take in around $2 million a year in carefree fees and only have 1 repairman? I won't be part of that

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1.0
Dec 5, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The only pro about this company is that it offers free lunch on the weekends. They do offer benefits to full-time employees but seriously your job is always on the line so how great can that really be?

Cons

I still get nightmares of this place. It was the worst retail store I have ever worked for. You make no commission but must work brutally to make your daily and hourly sales or else your job is on the line. They give you about 2-3 months to get positive numbers and if you don't-you don't make the cut. The environment is extremely cutthroat. People steal sales and the managers for the most part look the other way. Even sales leads do it but because they are up the manager's butts they wont even get a slap on the wrist. However, if your personality isn't liked by the managers than consider your job over. The managers sit up front in their little information booth talking badly about everyone on the sales floor-they'll talk about peoples personal lives and how they look. If you're somewhat cool with them, they'll share all this information and jokes with you. In order to make it to the top at this company you have to be selfish, rude and a kiss butt. Seriously, this company rates a negative 1 on the ethics values. They also make you watch endless videos to "train" you but really they are trying to brainwash you into believing you're are working for the best company around-don't do much training on actual products-which is what people on the sales floor are suppose to be, "production specialists". This is a money hungry company and will do whatever it takes to make a buck. They push the sales team to push customers into applying for credit to spend more money they don't have. If you're close to making a sale but don't the managers will be down your throat asking why you didn't pull out all the stops-offering credit, offering a lease to own option if they don't get approved for credit, call in sales leads to pressure the customer to close the deal, etc. seriously this place sucks and if you read Yelp reviews they don't treat customers the best or deliver on their promises. I had so many customers come in to complain about delivery, customer service over the phone, product quality and our VIP service we push onto customers which is a joke of a protection on products. Not a great place to work and you go home feeling horrible about how you sold your time to this ungrateful and greedy company.

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