Pros
Pros - If you are a "talker" you might end up high in the ranks, without doing much actual work or creating value. Value creators are crammed in between middle management to jr positions. - You don't have to have a shining or relevant background to start working here, anyone can get a job at na-kd. - It's a place for people to "slack off", meaning you can do the bare minimum and keep your job. - For some positions, the company is flexible, meaning that you can "work" from anywhere in the world without coming to the office and not many people are following that up. - In most cases, teammates you'd have is the only motivation to keep on working.
Cons
- Verbal agreements are not valid, even to some extent written agreements too. You must be prepared that everything can happen overnight; you can get fired with no good reason at all, your job description can change, your bonus or option program can be cancelled and such. It's not a place to have long term plans with. - There is not a real difference between slacking off and really putting in effort for your job. Reward of extra work, extra output is not valued ("slacker" and "overachiever" difference in terms of benefits is less than 5%) so there is no incentive for running the extra mile. - If you have change in managers and new one doesn't like you, expect to be subject to mobbing and getting fired eventually. - If you are a foreigner in this company, you are on thin ice at all times. Company will assume you need them to hold onto your residency permit and be okay with whatever they want in your career, income, job description or workload. - Inexperienced management, they have no clue on how to run a business. They recently had a change in the top management, old ones left in a hurry. New ones seem to have no plan to fix the course whatsoever nor the experience. Only plan they came up with -or hired to execute- was laying off 30% of the company, and they didn't even have a plan on where to cut costs. Now they are closing down departments left and right without fully knowing what that department was doing. There is also a vacuum in the power dynamics in the company due to the fact that there is actually no one in charge, there is a massive blame game going within the company when sales are down. New boss seems to have no control of the situation or the people, probably due to his lack of experience; only sits in the room with both feet on the table and keeps telling everyone that he sleeps well. - Company advocates being green and environmentally sustainable. That is also highly incorrect. There was a section on the site called Na-kd Circle, which claims that users can sell and buy second hand clothing. In reality, customers could not sell their second hand products on site, and products listed on site as "second hand" or "pre-loved" are nothing but defective customer returns.