RH reviews

Where do I begin? This was by far the worst experience I've had in my career. 1,)The workload is absolutely ridiculous - there is no end. The company claims to have a start up environment, but they are stuck in backwards processes and will not adapt to change. I've worked for a start-up before, and believe me, Resto is not a start up. Expect to never feel a sense of completion. 2.) Resto is a disorganized company with a CEO who is a micro-manager and that trickles down from the top. "Retail is detail," according to the CEO, which means you can pretty much expect to have your manager monitoring every little thing you do. 3.) Expect to be driven by fear. Meetings are scary, with or without the CEO. 4.) Work/life balance does not exist. Even assistant buyers are salaried and often work late nights and weekends. The lack of work/life balance is propagated by promoting people who put their life into the company. Expect to work some late nights and weekends. 5.) ZERO company culture. No happy hours, no lunch breaks (unless it's someone's last day), no company sponsored social events, not even an email promoting employee morale. ZERO community involvement. 6.) Gmail is used as the email server and the company is all on macs. This may seem like a perk until you open up Excel and realize it's taking you twice as long to get your work done because Macs were not designed to support any type of financial based work. 7.) Cult like environment - the "I love Resto and I dedicate my life to working here cult" is weird and either you're a part of it or not. If you don't drink the koolaid, you'll be made to feel like an outsider. 8.) No 401k match and you can't start contributing until you've been there 6 months.

If you like working for uninspiring and incompetent leaders who only care about how high up the ladder they can reach...than this is place for you! Most of the leaders lack the basic knowledge of how to do their jobs which will make you wonder if any of them really went to college and their level of incompetence will also cause you to constantly muttering the phrase "Really, you really want me to do that!?" Trust me, it happens more times than you would think. For example, I had to plan my department's budget on several occasions because my boss didn't know how to do basic math. They don't care about their employees and the core values are constantly thrown in your face if you ever question them. Decisions are constantly changed at the last hour and as a result you're always doubling your efforts on projects, which is why the average work day is 10-12 hours. A work life balance is non-existant and the frequency of people suffering from stress related illnesses have gone up in the past couple of years. Because of that the turnover rate is extremely high and many talented people have left the company–some have even quit without finding a new job and currently the company is having a hard time filling positions because of their reputation for burning out people.