Dysfunctional Hellhole - Assistant Buyer Neiman Marcus Employee Review

1.0
27 Nov 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work from home (for now).

Cons

Dysfunctional company top to bottom. Opportunities for growth are non existent. For opportunities that do exist, HR is completely inept at matching candidates to open positions. External candidates are more valued than internal candidates. Who you work for, not your skill level, determines your outcome. Extremely unprofessional work environment, boss would openly criticize their employees and leaders and call people stupid behind their backs. Limited accountability- certain people act like tyrants with no recourse. Workload is extremely high for low pay and not spread evenly across organization. Constant turnover and burnout. Extremely top heavy organization with lots of executives dreaming up new things, with no one at the bottom to actually execute them. Majority of top leadership doesn't even live in Dallas, consensus is these positions are just a temporary money grab for them while they party at New York Fashion Week and leave in a year or two. Bonuses and yearly raises are minuscule and more of an insult than they're even worth. Bonuses do not track individual performance, so a person who tries and one who doesn't make the same amount. Company is divided between newer, motivated employees who are cycled in and out and the employees who have been there for decades who refuse to change or learn anything new. Poor, outdated technology. Systems used by assistants were broken half the time and job was not possible to do often. If someone left their position, new hires wouldn't come quickly at all, meaning impossible workloads would just increase even further. Everything at the company is an emergency and you will be expected to do it immediately and redo it several times as leadership continues to change their mind. No forward planning on anything. Use this job as a resume builder to leave, it won't be more than that.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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