Alcanna Reviews

2.7

31% would recommend to a friend

(62 total reviews)

James Burns

48% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

Alcanna has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 62 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Alcanna employee rating is 24% below average for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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62 reviews
1.0
5 Mar 2020

The perfect place to work if you like feeling afraid and demoralized

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The retail discounts are one of the only things that makes working here worthwhile. The company is also full of many wonderful people.

Cons

No discernible long-term planning or strategy and no transparency. This company is obsessed with "reinventing" itself every few months, meaning entire divisions will be eliminated without warning, and your boss, or even your role can change from one week to the next. Turnover is constant. Whether you've worked with the company for 6 months or 20 years, you can lose your job warning or explanation, because operational decisions are seemingly made on a reactive whim. The executives' lack of communication perpetuates this sense of instability. There is a culture of unease and uncertainty here, as if the C-suite are perpetually gaslighting their own employees. Even if you manage to get meaningful information from senior management, it's rarely reliable and will often turn out to be outrightly false — up to and including your own job security. The job you're hired for may very well not end up being the job you do, because they either don't understand your role or don't see the value in it, and they're not interested in receiving input or actual data if it goes against "the way it's always been done." Working in my field for over a decade, this is without question one of the most poorly managed organizations I've ever been a part of.

1.0
13 Dec 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Liquor discount is very good I used to have awesome coworkers My old boss was excellent Pretty simple work overall

Cons

Poor pay compared to other companies Extremely poor management Don't expect promotions or favouritism without being related to someone Repetitive boring work ZERO training Low quality benefits (if full time)

3.0
28 Feb 2020

Good entry job

Recommend
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Pros

Good experience in retail marketing.

Cons

Constant restructuring so there are no clear goals.

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