Lack of true leadership - Director Level The RealReal Employee Review

2.0
Feb 2, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

TRR makes a lot of money despite lack of infrastructure, high turn-over and poor leadership. Some high quality people working here. Interesting business, especially if you like fashion

Cons

This is an internet tech business that is operated as though it were a retail store front. Complete and total lack of understanding of how to implement and support a sales and support organization. Weak commission based compensation with no transparency. TRR exhibits a complete lack of faith in the Director and Management level. This tier of employees is lured in with the promise of being able to be a part of a growing organization and effect change only to eventually learn that they have no say in the culture of the company. They choose to build instead of buy technology solutions like CRM despite lacking resources and expertise to develop, implement and support such systems. Repeated stories of people not being paid accurately and unsatisfactory responses to inquiries. Employees are made to feel guilty for wanting to take vacation or work remotely regardless of circumstance. Operations and infrastructure are a mess. Items are regularly lost, stolen or misplaced and customers have to be paid. There is little security or inventory control for such high value items.

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5.0
May 8, 2026
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Pros

Overall, the receiving team is very sweet and engaging. They try to help you when you need it or ask for it.

Cons

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2.0
Jun 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Pay and commission can be good, but the structure is unnecessarily convoluted and not as generous as it seems, and you will have no work/life balance if you want to actually make consistently high commission. If you have a true passion for luxury and fashion, you do get a lot of opportunities to handle and interact with special/rare items, and depending on store location you can meet a lot of interesting industry people and celebrities, especially during Fashion Weeks

Cons

Poor and unsupportive management with extremely unrealistic demands and expectations; you will get virtually no training, but are immediately expected to know how to do everything. The overall company culture is just unpleasant and very cliquey, and there's constant employee turnover. The online customer service system is terrible, so you will frequently have to handle customer issues that have nothing to do with you/your sales.

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