New Balance reviews

Endless opportunities to grow and take on new challenges, VERY limited opportunities for promotion as a result of your success. There is no attrition, you cannot move up into a management role when everyone has been holding onto them for 20 plus years. You have to leave the company in order to move up. The lack of movement in management also creates serious NB tunnel vision within the organization. Several members on the senior leadership team have spent their entire careers at NB. Very few women in positions of influence. When they are in leadership roles they tend to be in the typical female dominated functional areas of retail and HR. NB has been asking employees to do more with less since the economic downturn of 2008. In spite of making incredible profits the last few years and presently, the company still operates like it's 2008 and on the brink of laying people off. Employees are getting burned out and apathetic. Couple that with a strategic vision that changes all too often and you have a recipe for disaster. Your title and salary will not be remotely within the same ballpark of what you are actually tasked within doing.

HR is a joke. They talk about gossip and then they are heard gossiping, they don't do anything for anyone anymore. its all online. The in house clicks of who gets to be what is outdated. YOU are not seen for the job you do well You are seen for who you know well and whose friends with whom. It is a sad environment to work in and people can't even do the jobs they were initially hired for. They are moved all over and new balance wonders why there are some quality issues and a hard time meeting deadlines with products? no advancement for anyone.