The RealReal reviews

2.8

33% would recommend to a friend

(1,609 total reviews)

Rati Sahi Levesque

62% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

The RealReal has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,609 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The The RealReal employee rating is 21% below average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Nov 19, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

There aren't any pros to this company or the team.

Cons

Terrible processes, compensation, and leadership on the recruiting team. People hired into management and Director roles who are not even qualified to be a Lead. Executive Leadership doesn't know how create, foster and retain talent. More so, Executive Leadership doesn't know how to identify great talent, they are more concerned about filling an empty seat with anyone who will accept the terrible pay. The People Ops team is terrible, they want everyone else to do their job for them. Terrible follow up, don't attend meetings that they put on your calendar, and they take days if not weeks to respond to an email. Leadership on the People Ops team is some of the worst I have ever worked with. More than 70% of the recruiters have resigned within the last 90 days, and some how, leadership still have their jobs.

2.0
Nov 18, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Coworkers, knowledge, learning opportunities, benefits

Cons

Pay, pay for amount of work expected, non transparent management, micromanagement

2.0
Nov 18, 2021

Entirely disappointing

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some consignors are really fun! It is also fun to be with the product and see beautiful handbags and jewelry. Great Salesforce experience.

Cons

I was with TRR for almost four years, pre and post IPO. Pre-IPO the company was so fun and had a great startup, hustle, scrappy, get-it-done mentality. Post IPO everything went downhill. The word micromanagement doesn't even begin to cover it. Quite frankly, TRR does not value people - consignors or team members. Sales team members are treated like a machine and expected to perform like one. Your quota and shipped units are the only thing that matters. The only thing TRR is looking out for is the bottom line. Don't expect a culture of work / life balance or creativity, sharing, growth, or building people up. The Concierge team positions are a complete dead end. I asked my managers multiple times for introductions across different channels to help me move up or even laterally within the company and was told to "look on the internal job listings board." Some team members and managers cheat the system to inflate numbers. It does not matter if you are a people person, have great client facing skills, or even have a knowledge or background in fashion. They will absolutely hire you if you have Salesforce experience and will cold call though. That's truly all this job is now. Mid-level management are robots. They impact zero change. The regional directors do impact some, whether good or bad. There are some bad eggs in very high leadership positions which trickles down and really speaks to the toxic culture. Most importantly, it's nearly impossible to make your monthly quota to make any commission. You work sun up to sun down to ship units, (in my case driving across an entire state) and even if you ship over 100% to the units quota, it is unlikely you will make your points quota. The company does not emphasize (or even train that well in onboarding) that this metric is the higher commission payout for reps because the velocity of items selling on the site is what they care about most. High value items take time with consignors and take longer to sell on the site. TRR does not care about building relationships with consignors to acquire high value pieces. They frankly don't have time.

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