Worthwhile if you're in it for the long haul - Director of Global Merchandise Planning Ralph Lauren Employee Review

3.0
Nov 3, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

RL is an amazing brand with strong potential. The company is improving its leadership and slowly getting up to speed with the times. If you are smart, you will be worked to the ground. It is an environment where you sink or swim and there is little development or training. They are working at improving training and benefits, with exciting initial results.

Cons

poor leadership poor systems lack of clear career paths and role definition poor distribution of workload

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Discounted coffee, insurance, some hardworking co workers.

Cons

The first West Coast location of Ralph’s Coffee Newport Beach is the worst place I've ever worked. Under the management of David Peterson, people work short-staffed very often, and his working style is very passive, and his timing is terrible. I don't know why they made him manager without proven experience and a lack of leadership. Chronic understaffing paired with a manager who avoids weekends, holidays, and difficult conversations creates a compounding problem staff burnout rises, morale drops, and unaddressed poor performers make things worse for everyone else. The irony is that understaffing often ends up costing the business more through overtime, turnover, and lost productivity than fixing it would but he they never try to fix it.

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