Gilt Groupe Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Gilt Groupe

Pros – Great place to work, comfortable and sociable environment.

Cons – Sometimes an unprofessional environment to work in

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Gilt Groupe full-time for less than a year

Pros – Free Stumptown coffee and cereal, decent employee discount, camaraderie among junior staff, everyone gets laptops, convenient location next to the 6 train.

Cons – Aloof management with little knowledge or care about what their teams are going through, lack of strategy or scalable business model leads to constant shifts in direction, lack of processes and constant turnover leads to frequent fire fighting, poor morale as everyone looking for another job

Advice to Senior Management – Spend more time trying to really understand from the ground level what's going wrong. Be honest about the problems of the company, including the culture, and how you will fix them

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Gilt Groupe full-time for more than a year

Pros – Some people are fun and inspirational.

Cons – Very unprofessional behaviors, managers do not know how to manage or care too much about the growth of the company as much as their personal gain.

Former Employee – worked at Gilt Groupe as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Insight into the luxury market, including fashion, local lifestyle events, restaurants and so much more. Excellent, comfortable and easy-going environment that allows one to be productive and enjoy all assignments and duties.

Cons – To be perfectly honest, I enjoyed every day that I interned. It was truly a learning experience that I am very happy to have had. I suppose our office in Boston was a bit small, but at that point there were only three of us. From what I understand their recent merger has not only increased the size of the Boston office, but of the entire market.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Gilt Groupe full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great company, work with interesting vendors. I'd recommend this company but only certain departments.

Cons – Operations: Management is cliquey and condescending. They push you too hard. Your job is below them and they don't offer to help with what you do when you are overwhelmed. Instead, they try to figure out better 'processes' and point the finger. Never been so unhappy with a department in my years experience in the job force and I'm not the first one of my co-workers to say that.

Advice to Senior Management – Less micro-managing.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Gilt Groupe part-time for less than a year

Pros – -Great snack room
-Awesome products on website with employee discount

Cons – Gilt Groupe uses a number of offices to staff their customer service operations as well as a work from home team. I was a member of this work from home group who consistently lacked management support on basic issues. Technical difficulties we constant and the IT support from the home office was both rude and unhelpful. Some of the supervisors are smart, competent people but their intelligence was overshadowed by their utter disregard for the needs of their employees. Additionally, the in-house and work from home team were treated differently on a number of occasions.

Advice to Senior Management – Gilt Groupe, please disband the work from home team. Your employees hate it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Gilt Groupe full-time

Pros – * great e-commerce experience
* strong, smart, fast founders
* fun work environment
* opens doors
* differentiated & well-respected brand

Cons – * a bit of a "devil wears prada" culture
* territorial battles are ongoing as startup has become larger

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Gilt Groupe

Pros – Great vibe to the company along with it being in a cool new, growing industry. There are lots of opportunities to here about different departments and management keeps employees abreast of the company with its weekly "all hands" meeting.

Cons – Long hours. Room for growth seems difficult. Poor work-life balance , and some bad decision making. I feel that Gilt is to caught up in expanding and growing without first properly establishing its foundation. There's nothing wrong with expansion, however the balance of doing that and solidifying the core is not there.

Advice to Senior Management – I would suggest that Gilt stop trying to expand and focus more on 2 or 3 of it's top business models (Gilt Groupe, Gilt City and Jetsetter). There are still several improvements that need to be made to the core of these units and the continuous expansion will hurt Gilt overall. They are striving really hard to go public and I don't see that ever happening.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Gilt Groupe

Pros – Gilt is the leader in it's industry with great potential growth.

Cons – Since it's a young company, it lacks structure and organization. Needs more senior level management.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Gilt Groupe

Pros – - Employee Discount
- No set vacation allotment. If you have no big projects or deadlines(which will never happen), you can take a few days/week whenever you like.
- The shriek of wonder, excitement and jealousy people make when you tell them you work at Gilt.
- Most people look great and are well dressed(also a con... see below)
- Lots of young staff in their 20's(also a con... see below)

Cons – - 1 direction - Make more money.
- 0 focus. Multitasking is an understatement. Grow two more arms before sending in your resume.
- Upper management plays favorites when it comes to promotions and praise.
- phony, catty, Queeny(capital Q) environment.
- You'll be worked to the BONE, please don't misunderstand this. Your life?... belongs to Gilt.
- Company morale that you should "just be happy" because you work for Gilt.
- Don't expect your manager to be present, active, engaged or frankly even care about your growth or learning.
- Colleagues WILL take credit for your hard work/contributions.
- People look great, yes, but are often superficial. There's usually a random diet or cleanse people are on.
- Young staff is high energy, but also inexperienced. Some initiatives would run smoother if new college grads weren't steering the ship.
- High turnover, even on the upper level.
- Very few windows... so you wont realize two days have gone by and you've never left your desk.
- This list will grow... everyday at Noon EST!

Advice to Senior Management – Get a grip. There really is more to life than cheap pumps. Realize that you're hemorrhaging staff because of your complete and utter disregard for the fact that they're human beings. Re-evaluate the bulk of your leadership team(across verticals), because they're useless. The poorly managed worker bees are who really make this thing soar. You're Welcome!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend