Vera Bradley reviews

3.0

25% would recommend to a friend

(839 total reviews)

Ian Bickley

28% approve of CEO

19% positive business outlook

Vera Bradley has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 839 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Vera Bradley 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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839 reviews
1.0
Jul 19, 2024

No thanks

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Pros

Very friendly employees for the most part; good benefits; great vacation time if you're there long enough. The founders of the company are fantastic, generous people.

Cons

Used to be a great place to work - a lot of the actual employees there are wonderful people but the current leadership is awful. Totally ruthless and uncaring. This is from firsthand knowledge from other former employees: They eliminated 30+ people across multiple departments in the name of 'cost savings' and then turned around to spend millions on a celebrity influencer. The layoffs for anyone under VP level included a severance based on length of employment, but health insurance was cut off THAT DAY. This included a woman who was mid-pregnancy, people with kids on their insurance, etc. Meanwhile Execs got a year of pay and insurance. The consultant they brought in to decide who would go and who would stay created a completely toxic work environment for everyone involved, turned people against each other, and then they hired this person on to VP level after firing everyone. Just know what you are getting into. Also if you think this isn't true ask anyone who currently works there, this all happened.

2.0
Jul 6, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Employee discount on great product Some contests/perks Bonus program

Cons

Loved working for this company until last year. For the last 11 months has been constant turnover from both the field and HQ. What was recently shared to me from my DM (one of the originals) was that our executive team and our new field directors have communicated that they are “expecting 90% of lower management to be looking for another job and by next year they will have achieved more than 70% new staff to be running their stores.” This is durning a huge transition of our company in it’s restoration project too! We have no ideal how the market will respond to the new changes and to be frank, the executives don’t even know. It’s a real gamble during the worst time where most stores are seeing double digit decreases in both traffic and transactions with difficult margins. If this is what my bosses think of both my peers and myself, yea we will be looking for other opportunities. The new VP of sales is also enacting new “accountabilities” on sales teams if there is no leverage which this will be very interesting to see.

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