Corporate Office - Negative Experience - Would Not Recommend - Anonymous employee Red Wing Shoe Employee Review

I had a negative experience at Red Wing's corporate office and I found the company to have a significant problem with some of its sales leaders not being qualified to lead a cross-functional team of people (in functions across more than just their small sales teams). Sales leadership (directors/vps) on some of the smaller brands at Red Wing were particularly clueless, were frustrating to work with on a regular basis, and were surprisingly mean for a small, MN company. I'm confident that top leadership at Red Wing knows that they have people management issues, but I didn't see much action being taken to address the problems or to respond to some of these issues (vs. just turning a blind eye to the problems repeatedly because conflict like this can be difficult). In addition, the company has a strange sales/boy’s club culture that didn’t feel very welcoming to me in a lot of ways. This culture definitely creates a feeling of their being insiders and outsiders at Red Wing and I’m not sure how a company can thrive in this type of environment. There are certainly a lot of good people at Red Wing, but the overall culture was very disappointing to me and I would highly recommend avoiding Red Wing as a possible place of employment.