Unqualified, unskilled upper management who don't understand what design branding, efficiency or professionalism is. - Graphic Designer JCPenney Employee Review

1.0
22 Oct 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Pretty good medical insurance. That's the only pro.

Cons

The creative work isn't actually creative. Anything creative is outsourced to an agency. Very talented creative designers are beaten down by repetition and favoritism by an incompetent Vice President and her side kick and in turn those leaders under them try to make them happy to get ahead and let everything else fall apart trying to kiss up to them out of fear. They rule with fear because it hides the fact that they don't know anything about marketing except what pretty colors are. The hours are long and expected, weekends too. This is not a family company—there are no company values except that we're all replaceable. The leaders don't care about families but mostly don't have one because jcpenney is all they have. Pathetic. Only favorites withwho kiss up to them get promoted. They hire there friends and promote them, no skills or talent required and everything going on shows it. Obviously morale is nonexistent. This company will not survive like this. Forget HR helping. A whole group went to HR companing about these things. And nothing was done. HR is almost worse here than them. People are either quitting or trying to. It's funny because everyone comments on all the Penney people applying to the jobs I apply for. Well, yeah.

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