High-growth company with opportunity and autonomy. Perfect for self-starters - Anonymous employee The RealReal Employee Review

5.0
5 Dec 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Lots of opportunity, autonomy, room for growth, and creative thinking encouraged. - Ability to see projects through from conception to strategy to execution. - Great team, creative culture, free lunches and snacks. - Fast-growing startup experiencing great success and making new strides every day. - Management is very accessible, including the CEO.

Cons

- Startup culture meaning hard work. Must be willing to go above and beyond. - Not your traditional 9 to 5. Have to be willing to put in long hours and get things done.

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5.0
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Pros

Overall, the receiving team is very sweet and engaging. They try to help you when you need it or ask for it.

Cons

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2.0
13 June 2026
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Pros

Pay and commission can be good, but the structure is unnecessarily convoluted and not as generous as it seems, and you will have no work/life balance if you want to actually make consistently high commission. If you have a true passion for luxury and fashion, you do get a lot of opportunities to handle and interact with special/rare items, and depending on store location you can meet a lot of interesting industry people and celebrities, especially during Fashion Weeks

Cons

Poor and unsupportive management with extremely unrealistic demands and expectations; you will get virtually no training, but are immediately expected to know how to do everything. The overall company culture is just unpleasant and very cliquey, and there's constant employee turnover. The online customer service system is terrible, so you will frequently have to handle customer issues that have nothing to do with you/your sales.

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