Incredible growth, energy, cool people, but overworked - Anonymous employee The RealReal Employee Review

4.0
18 Oct 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of perks, good food, interesting and diverse coworkers.

Cons

Growing too quickly to accommodate work flow. People are overworked and expected to shoulder burden. Majority of employees are hourly, not salary. At least half of people who work here cannot afford cost of living in SF. To be fair, in any other city we would doing fine, but still not sufficient.

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5.0
8 May 2026
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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

When you don't reach your goal, they do get on you/

2.0
13 June 2026
Recommend
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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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