Hit and miss! - Associate Creative Project Manager Ralph Lauren Employee Review

3.0
Dec 16, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The stakeholders are really incredible and many are legacy employees. The director level leadership team is open to ideas/feedback/input and gives lower level employees lots of opportunities to manage up and prove themselves. I didn’t meet a single director that want incredible. The company is iconic. Especially as far as fashion goes (most of us worked for competitors before going RL) the workplace environment is full of kind people and feels relatively secure if you work hard and pay attention.

Cons

Mid-level management is WAY overworked which trickled down to very little support for/communication with their direct reports. People are extremely over worked and under compensated, even at the associate level. The hours are BANANAS, even for a fashion company. The company basically went permanently remote for the NYC office, which made consistent long days and nights combined with a lack of communication a lot tougher, IMO. I didn’t feel like there was a ton of room for growth in my department.

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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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