Pros
- Departments where the company has bigger investment seem to experience a better environment: Women’s, Home. - Employees band together to support eachother in a toxic environment. A lot of good, nice people that deserve better leadership.
Cons
Specific to the children’s team. - Inadequate leadership: lacking creative direction, decision making and vision. Leaders are not only incapable of motivating and retaining or growing team members, but have a toxic approach. A lot of instances of disrespect with employees, finger pointing and blaming is a popular dynamic. Top leadership does not foster team spirit. - No proper process and no trust in more experienced employees to implement them. No clear calendar or milestones, constant moving targets. - Walmart has huge influence on design and also has a very toxic approach. Earthbound employees feel like they’re constantly “getting in trouble” and being blamed when trying to do their jobs. - Benefits/perks are not respected. Very often Jewish holidays and 1/2 Fridays cannot be taken due to calendar conflicts. - Huge employer retention issues, 13 people have left during my time here even after being employed for less than a year. - Not a true designer job - the design process is done by suppliers instead of in-house. Very limited exposure to concept, no sketching, no PLM or 3D. Unconventional processes.