Its brand and morals died long ago. - Anonymous employee ModCloth Employee Review

I was lucky enough to start at ModCloth in 2013, when it existed as a caring, creative amalgamation of the most incredible people I’ve ever worked with. They were and continue to be my closest friends, even though most of us no longer work there. Some quit, most were fired, and many (myself included) were told that they would eventually be let go, forced to essentially watch a brand they so cherished crash and burn as they waited 6 months (yes, 6!) for the end. Sidenote: an exec at the time apparently apologized offhand for the messy August 2016 layoffs by saying with a laugh: “You know when a hunter shoots a deer, but doesn’t get the kill shot, and the deer just has to bleed out in order to eventually die? That’s kind of what we did to you guys.” These are the kind of tone-deaf people that are in charge. As we waited for our end dates, it became clearer and clearer that ModCloth had abandoned its mission long before the August 2016 restructuring. There is ZERO TRANSPARENCY and you are safe to assume that anything an executive says is a lie. Matt Kaness is a manipulative, uncaring person to his core. At all-hands company meetings, he would stand at the front answering “questions submitted to him by employees” off a piece of paper. No employees received any call to submit questions prior to the meeting. He made the questions up so he could announce twisted plans under the guise of transparency. Most importantly: Matt Kaness hates the plus-sized community. Entire campaigns would be taken down from the site after he caught a glimpse of plus-sized models who didn’t fit his hourglass, size-10 limit. The whole Retire the Plus scheme to have customers shopping together in one, utopian fantasy was a SHAM in order to focus less on plus sizes, and it is entirely what caused ModCloth to hemorrhage money beginning November 2015. The moral disconnect the comes with the Walmart acquisition doesn’t surprise current or former employees in the slightest. I sincerely hope increased funding from Walmart gives everyone still working there the job security that’s been absent for over two years. I’m thankful to ModCloth for giving my career its start, I’m endlessly thankful for the people I met, and I’m thankful to be out of that toxic environment.