Mostly nice people. Unsustainable company with weird politics. - Pack Associate Blue Apron Employee Review

3.0
7 Sept 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Not many. The rallies were nice. Pre-IPO employees enjoyed Silicon Valley-style perks like daily prepared meals and IPO shares. There is good room for advancement if one is interested.

Cons

Cold miserable work environment. Daily frostbite, repetetive motion, weird aches and pains, high turnaround. Having to dress like Nanook of the North when it's 80 degrees outside. One has to be somewhat desperate (which I was). The daily existential crisis of wondering if what you are doing is actually of any benefit to the world. Unsustainability: Since Blue Apron, the original meal kit delivery company, launched they incurred about half a dozen competitors for what is a finite, niche market. Heck, even Martha Stewart is in on the action now. Their main competitor out of Germany, Hello Fresh, was so brazen they set up a fulfillment center just down the road and stalked me with ads via Google and the iOT just because I frequented my place of work (they thought I was a customer apparently). Oh, and lastly, I did not appreciate being forced to stay late and stand motionless in that freezing environment to give a moment of silence to a violent drug addicted criminal thug (George Floyd).

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5.0
20 Nov 2024
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CEO approval
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Pros

Quality personnel to work with, good work/life balance, competitive salary and benefits.

Cons

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4.0
5 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great culture and people, fun place to work

Cons

Many employees are in roles that are over their head. IT is a mess and unskilled

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