A big slow moving company with a lot of well paid lazy executives - Computer Artist/Manager Ralph Lauren Employee Review

2.0
Mar 25, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Met some great hard working people. Workers who love the brand and care about it's future. And despite many obstacles they still manage to move mountains.

Cons

Company is sooo top heavy. RL hires people who do absolutely nothing at the company but collect a paycheck. And he empowers coke heads to run his most favorite parts of the business like the in-house stylists. The corporate culture promotes back stabbing, ganging up on each other, not taking responsibility for ones work, bullying and fear. An in-house worker survey revealed wide spread dissatisfaction the the shock if the executive team! This is so telling of what the corporate culture is like. Also, their salaries are a joke!

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5.0
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Pros

Employees enjoy comprehensive welfare programs and a generally favorable working environment.

Cons

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1.0
Jul 13, 2026
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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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