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      The RealReal

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      The RealReal reviews

      2.9

      35% would recommend to a friend

      (1,598 total reviews)

      Rati Sahi Levesque

      70% approve of CEO

      35% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.1

      Work/Life balance

      2.8

      Culture & values

      2.8

      Compensation and benefits

      2.5

      Senior management

      2.5

      Career opportunities

      The RealReal has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,598 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The The RealReal employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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      2K reviews
      4.0
      Jun 10, 2015

      Good place to work, growing quickly so lots of work but I liked that

      Associate merchandise manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      they take care of employees with great benefits, growing fast so if you get in now you could be apart of a big company soon, the merchandising team I worked for was wonderful and so hard working, each team seems really connected, they pay overtime! So even though you have to work a lot you get a nice check from it, catered lunches and desserts weekly

      Cons

      its out of the city, so it can be a long trek getting to work, there are no windows in the building, its really a 6 day a week job

      4.0
      May 12, 2014

      I'm a current software engineer doing web development.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      My colleagues are smart, motivated, caring, and enjoyable people. We give each other honest feedback and learn from each other. We've got a nice ping pong culture going.

      Cons

      At points, I get too much pressure from the business side to accomplish tasks that require time and thought to complete intelligently. When I first joined the company a year ago, the development pace was frenetic as we were just launching a full rewrite of the site. Unfortunately, the first wave of mostly contracted developers were lacking in the skills needed to make a well organized, well functioning site. After some while, we've managed to stabilize and now build better features. There is not enough climate control here in our main warehouse. On hot days, it gets too hot inside.

      4.0
      May 12, 2014

      Engineering is good

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      There are tons of opportunities to contribute. I'm pretty junior as developers go, but I've been involved heavily in creating the mobile web product, reengineering the checkout process, reorganizing the home page, and creating several features from scratch. Senior devs are good, and management within engineering is good. They take the time to partner with you, sit with you through code reviews, talk about business implications of features to excite you, and to generally show you the ropes of being a startup engineer. They encourage you to try out new technologies (Famo.us, Angular, Elastic Search) and bring them into the stack where appropriate. There are regular feedback sessions that align expectations. Dev team is fun. We play ping pong all the time and chill after work together. The CTO goes out of his way to get us toys (kegerator, xbox one, etc) for particularly hard pushes that impact the bottom line. Last point - the tech team seeks out best practices and does its best to implement them. We run on 2 week sprints and use Pivotal Tracker. We have retrospectives that genuinely improve our sprints as we move along. I feel like my suggestions are taken seriously.

      Cons

      Location is terrible - you'll need to have some form of transportation or be okay with 45 min of bussing around to get to the place. Consequently, food choices at lunch are limited, though there are a few healthy and tasty options around. Firing isn't always done the most diplomatic way. We've had to cut slack, but I'm not sure the way we did the cutting was the best. We hire Indian sub contractors to do some portions of our code base that aren't customer-facing. My biggest complain with our tech process is that we use these sub contractors - communicating with them can be hard, and even as a junior dev I can tell some of their code is wonky and hard-to-read. Their involvement is pretty limited, and I deal with there code spaghetti pretty rarely.

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