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2.8

26% would recommend to a friend

(679 total reviews)
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Scott Schaefer

31% approve of CEO

7% positive business outlook

The Zappos Family has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 679 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The The Zappos Family employee rating is 21% below average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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679 reviews
2.0
Mar 19, 2018

This place changed.

Recommend
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Pros

AMAZING benefits. They give you alcohol to hush you up too. The company throws a few parties a year for employees which are fun. You can bring your dog to work after they meet some basic qualifications. The attendance policy is a give or take. For the most part you're allowed to miss a few days without reprocussion. It's usually set up on some sort of a point policy. Example: You're given 70 points, you miss one day, that's a 10 point deduction. It's usually a 6 month turn around to earn those points back. If you hit 0 points, you're terminated. This sounds rough, but it's one of the fairest policies I've ever worked with. If you're young, single and don't have a family, this place is great for you.

Cons

Extremely poor communication...like, the government has better communication than this place, micromanaged, stressful, upper management shows favoritism. Owned by Amazon and it's really starting to show in day-to-day policies. If you get hired in CLT, you'll likely always be in CLT. It's incredibly uncommon to actually switch departments. CLT is extremely micromanaged and stressful. They call it self management but it's really just like every other job out there. You have metrics to meet, you miss them, you're fired. The self-management part of it is how quickly you want to lose your job. If you want to stay here, drink the kool-aid. Policies change nearly every other month and shift bids are usually a huge cluster. Company has offshore teams that are still "part of the Zappos family" so there's always a chance your job will be moved offshore but it won't be called outsourcing.

1.0
Aug 26, 2015

Issues

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Had a great culture and was a great place to work before all of the structural changes.

Cons

Things have gone off the deep end. Employees are leaving constantly.

3.0
Jul 26, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Zappos offers great health benefits and a relaxed working environment. We have a lot of amenities on campus and many more offsite. The food is good and cheap in the onsite cafeteria.

Cons

The pay is terrible. We make well below market value. There's tons of propaganda trying to get employees to buy-in to the CEO's whims. It can be very cultish at times where employees never question the decisions of management. The company culture has been destroyed with the switch to holacracy. "The offer" was merely a way to lay people off without making the CEO out to be a liar since he vowed to never do layoffs again. Under the new structure the CEO is more of a benevolent dictator and he has henchmen do all of his dirty work.

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