Here are some things that I've found on Glassdoor as it relates to 'improvements needed' or 'Cons" - there is about three dozen entries here and I just covered last few days. If you drill deeper there is more negative reviews. Here it goes:
Corporate/Tech:
- Low equity
- Poorly performing stock
- Tumultuous environment
- Very disorganized and leadership lacked direction
- Mismanaged, expanded too fast and had some hardships between recalls and other outside factors. Made it a hard place to feel like there was a future at.
- Internal communication is not where it needs to be yet. Normal for a maturing company.
- Everyone is so concerned with becoming a higher level, that one is actually doing the work. Majority of people are the those that couldn’t make manager/director at larger companies so come here for the Resume bump. Decisions are made in a vacuum and if ICs present differently than “exec” biased opinion they are belittled publicly in large meeting forums. Avoid this workplace at all costs.
- Clean house at the top. Remove the dinosaurs from the Book and Auto industry and hire folks that understand how overseas manufacturing works.
- Work live balance is hard sometimes.
- Lots of restructuring going on
- I wish the company allows their employees to work from home for good. Work life and balance in inside sales could be a lot better and more consistent rather than the schedule being all over the place but I’m sure they have a reason for it.
- My advice would be to know each individual in the team and work with them and what they want ( e.g work life/ balance, maybe more pay for exceeding goals and metrics, other request they may have) as long as it is under your control so that talented employees don’t leave the company.
Sales
- Work life balances bad
- Hard to get holidays
- Not much growth, work in a mall
- Unorganized
- No real flexibility in your work schedule
- Early hours and heavy lifting
- Management, management, management, lack of support
- play favourites
- competitive work environment
- commission is paid end of month
- Dishonesty, takes advantage, no growth opportunities