Rodan + Fields Reviews

Don't be fooled by all the positives posts. If you are looking for a corporate job be sure to comb through these to find reviews of actual employees. It is all a facade: Rodan and Fields does a great job of focusing on their outside appearances (the consultants, results, pretty pictures, etc) and completely neglect the inside (corporate structure, culture, and employees) Management: It is very clear here that people with the title Manager and even Director have little to no experience or training in actually managing projects and people. Managers manage from their egos, fear and control. Employees are not empowered to do their jobs, they are watched by their managers and every move made has to go through about a 5 level chain of reviews. I have had supervisors brag about how late they work, how little sleep they get and how they neglect their home life. It is a source of pride for many and seems to be what is respected. I watched 4 people go out with medical emergencies in a 3 month span. Business: The company should be out of "start up" mode. It is a chaotic environment with little no processes in place in any department. It makes it hard to keep projects moving forward and very frustrating. Culture: It is a culture based in fear and very directive managing. Employees are not given much autonomy. I had to write daily summaries of what I worked on. I watched managers make their employees cry and tell them to work longer hours and on weekends if they can't get their work done. I've watched several people get "pushed" out instead of being coached on their shortcomings. Benefits: Unfortunately the company does not redeem itself here either. Benefits are standard. There is a huge opportunity for a woman run business to offer innovative benefits to retain women and working moms, but they do not. Whatever they pride themselves on for consultants (flexible schedule, autonomy, family centric values...) is not what is practiced on the inside. I've worked for Great Company's. I mean actual company's that make the Best Company's to Work for lists. Perhaps my standards are high. but with so many amazing companies in this area it is hard not to.

Where to begin. There are just so many issues, and they all stem from the C-suite: 1) Complete incompetence. Sales have declined for 2 straight years and this C-suite literally doesn’t know what to do. Last year they paid millions of dollars to multiple consulting firms to develop a muddled, unrealistic strategy based on monkey math that they ditched soon after. This year they switched strategy again because they all read a book that showed they were doing it wrong. A book! Can’t make this stuff up. These guys change their minds more than I change clothes. 2) No vision or prioritization which results in constant start/stop projects, resource competition, extremely overworked teams and poor morale, and no progress or results. There is ZERO fruit for your labor. Be prepared to be asked to urgently develop a plan, spend weeks burning the midnight oil on it, only to then be told there’s no funding. 3) There has been 30-50% turnover in the last year, plus a massive round of layoffs. To say teams are lean, stressed and overworked is putting it nicely. Only VPs stick around because they are heavily compensated for doing so. 4) This C-suite is atrociously arrogant and does not care about its people...at all. Very callous attitude behind closed doors, punishment for those that challenge them, bad news (eg hiring freeze, layoffs) delivered to employees over email, blame thrown everywhere, and the most fake showing of “let’s make the culture better” I’ve ever seen. All talk and no action on the people side. HR is just as bad. Deserving junior people never get promoted and bonus payouts have been cut, yet the C-suite and founders spend millions traveling the world with top consultants hosting lavish parties. While sales tank. It’s sickening. 5) Irresponsible financial management for a company that’s in decline. The lavish parties aren’t all. We have a mostly empty San Ramon office solely because the CEO lives near there and won’t give it up. We keep promoting VP+ employees and get even more top-heavy while no one remains to do the work. We have $600M of debt and I wouldn’t be surprised if we declare bankruptcy in a year. The list goes on and on but I’ll stop there.