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Charlotte Russe Reviews

3.1

38% would recommend to a friend

(1,897 total reviews)
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Jenny J. Ming

30% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

Charlotte Russe has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,897 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Charlotte Russe employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
3 Jan 2018

Don’t work here if you have morals, values and ethics

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Fun atmosphere, great perks, the hiring process was pretty quick and it was very inviting.

Cons

To much like high school, very fake, would lie to your face. The upper staff do to many meetings that’s all they do is meetings meeting meeting and. Their training process is the worst I have incountered. The high pace environment it is really needs to have some form of structure so people feel confident they are doing a good job. The pay is too low for what you have to endure and frankly the clothes look cheap and sleazy for the most part.

2.0
28 Oct 2016
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Pros

Great exposure to fast fashion. Very few managers were great, only 1 of them allowed us to be creative, try new trends, and didn't micromanage, valued work-life balance and made working here fun.

Cons

Fake-political-sorority type atmosphere at the Corporate Office, didn't acknowledge team members who were positively contributing to the business, would rather promote those who didn't do anything but kissed up to upper management despite double digit negative comps in their business (merch manager in denim), micro managing is the latest theme that has led to working many long nights and anxiety attacks, very unhealthy work life balance, upper management is too much in the weeds and doesn't allow their team members to grow in their career, the merchants and merch coordinators does everything while upper management takes all of the credit, treats them very poorly, doesn't listen to them, works them to the bone, and disregards their full potential, merchants that have been there for years are not open to testing new ideas and are too comfortable so they just want to cruise in their role not having a drive or passion to seek change to really drive the business, people are worn down, not compensated, paid way below the average salary in San Francisco, and hence get fed up and leave, so much turnover has happened in this company because upper management cannot get it together and bullies their direct reports below them.

2.0
5 June 2016
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Pros

Free clothes sometimes High turnover means fast promotion if you want to stay there Once you're a buyer, you can leave early and make your subordinates work 12 hour days then yell at them for overtime

Cons

Failing company High turnover Poor pay vs. workload--you'll be doing the work of two people for little more than minimum wage! No training--hope you're good at teaching yourself to do your job, because your boss probably doesn't know what she's doing either.

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