REVOLVE reviews

3.2

43% would recommend to a friend

(297 total reviews)

Mike Karanikolas

73% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

REVOLVE has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 297 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The REVOLVE 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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297 reviews
5.0
Mar 11, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

* pay – pay is slightly above market rate. Based on my conversations with other developers, you can expect 100K or so if you're mid level (3-5 years experience). Big bonus at the end of the year as well. * vacation - 15 days your first year. Another great thing about the engineering dept is that if necessary, you're allowed to take a month or two off and go travel or learn a new skill. Management is very flexible and understanding.   * employee discount – wholesale price on pretty much anything on the site. Revolve has very fashionable clothing/accessories, so if that's your thing, you're really gonna like it. I didn't really see many developers take advantage of it though. * flexible hours - you can start work anytime you want. * high employee caliber - my coworkers here have been knowledgeable, always willing to discuss designs/algorithms/strategies, and ready to help out if you're stuck. There are some quirky characters, but that's nothing new in an engineering dept.   * work/life balance - you work 40 hours a week. It's rare that anyone does overtime, so if you have a family, Revolve will be perfect for you. Also, if you finish your work before the end of your sprint, which happens here and there, you're free to do whatever you want. Some developers choose to just browse the web, chat, go to the coffee shop, or just call in sick. * huge growth - Revolve is growing at a phenomenal rate. Their revenue is 7 figures each day and the number of employees continue to grow. If you simply do your job, the chance of growth within the company is very high.

Cons

* workplace – you will be working in a warehouse. Although the artifical walls do help, noise is a concern. Most developers put on earplugs/headphones. * work - Revolve uses Model 1 JEE architecture, which is as simple as it gets. The design is intentionally simple, and as a byproduct you won't work with the latest MVC framework, but you'll always have free time to explore them if you want to. On the positive side, you can be productive rather quickly, since you'll have an easy time understanding the code base (a few months usually).   * no formal QA process – this was the first company I worked for where the code was being pushed to live without any formal testing process. The philosophy is that developers are then forced to write better code, and indeed I do see very high quality code with little errors. It forces developers to think about the requirements and produce the best algorithms for the task at hand.

1.0
Mar 2, 2015

Terrible management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

50% discount on clothes, free lunches on Thursday, and happy hours once or twice a week with free beer. Unfortunately these are just things used to mask the pay structure and the extremely contrasting difference between hourly and salary employees. If you're lucky enough to have went to school with one of the owners or are friends with someone already in a managerial position you'll love working here. Salary employees make a vast amount more and receive additional benefits like double the amount of vacation, extended lunches, shorter days, brand new equipment, etc. This isn't conjecture either almost everyones salary/hourly pay is known here due to a rampant amount of gossip and lack of confidentiality. Which is compounded by HRs inability to enforce anything with any sort of consistency. That being said it's a very drug friendly place (wether or not that is a pro or con is up to you) On any given day you can find people going to their cars to smoke weed before, during, and after work. It's often not even attempted to hide. People will sometimes do it directly outside the building HR is located in. This can be anyone from the owner to people from the warehouse. So I suppose that's the one instance of all the employees being treated equal. Every once in a while the managers will tell their teams not to do it but it's never enforced so whats the point.

Cons

There's little room for growth here. There will be plenty of promises upon hiring but in reality most of the departments have few higher positions from your initial hire. The few opportunities that do open up occasionally are usually filled on a "who's friends with who" basis rather than on merit or experience. That being said if you're in good with someone from senior management you'll have no problem getting promoted. Definitely not recommended for anyone hoping to work hard and move up without constantly playing politics. There is a vast distinction between salary and hourly positions as well. Our department was using equipment that was several years old and unreliable but were denied upgrades while at the same time other departments and new hires were given top of the line brand new equipment. If you're hourly you'll also get the brunt of most of the extra work when it comes to new projects or holidays. With all the salary employees rushing to get done early for the holidays or take an extended weekend it usually leaves the hourly employees picking up the slack. While we do get paid OT does that make up for a week of 11+ hour days leading all the way up to Christmas Eve. Or coming in on the weekends when everyone else is enjoying a nice 3 day weekend. The laid back party vibe is nice initially but quickly wears thin. When you're waiting for images or to finish something and everyone is outside having a beer or smoking because it's Friday it can get frustrating. Of course trying to deal with people who are obviously under the influence of alcohol or drugs can be equally frustrating. What do in their free time is their own business but when I go to leave at the end of the day I shouldn't have to walk through a circle of people passing a blunt around. Those examples would be where most people would think "Why dont you contact HR" That in itself is a whole other issue. There's little that ever gets accomplished going to them other than being told to more or less "suck it up" I wouldn't even suggest "anonymously" complaining about issues because theres a 99% chance whoever you complain about will find out. This will often lead to issues just be shrugged off or not reported due to fear of retaliation or drama. There's also more value on hiring less experienced and/or unqualified employees who will work for less than paying more for qualified experienced hires.

1.0
Dec 8, 2014

Too Much Drama

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good employee discount. Great opportunity only at entry level for max two years.

Cons

Way too much favoritism. Too much partying and not enough actual work getting done. No accountability for employees that are not working. Minimal raises and horrible pay. Promises for advancements never kept. Company does not pay well so upper management held by people that are not really qualified. Everything feels like high school. No desire to work harder because nothing comes of it.

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