Would not recommend - Category Manager Victoria's Secret Employee Review

1.0
6 Mar 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you make your bonus and if they still are paying out for making your bonus THAT is worth it. Some friends I made from working there are amazing but unfortunately all think the same way about this company. It's such a shame.

Cons

Management is all about favoritism. As a manager myself I was involved in conversations and meetings with my bosses about their love/hate relationships with my associates. They told me who they liked and didn't like and it was my job either get rid of them or get them promoted. At some points a LIST was made of associates to get rid of. If I didn't do what they wanted to in the time frame they expected I was in trouble. It's extremely fake. They say they care about the associates needs but that is just a cover. They really don't care at all. All management cares about is to make sure their associates don't say mad things about them. HR is a joke. There is no unbiased HR. They are always on the senior management's side. No matter what the situation is. Unnecessary levels of stress not warranted for a retail management position.

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Pros

Environment in the DC, people, discount, job security

Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Have met some amazing coworkers. Brand itself is fun.

Cons

Sudden Return to Work mandate 3 days in NY or OH SIX years after COVID. Any current employees outside of those states are being let go if they don’t uproot their lives and relocate. Many employees in those states built their lives around what seemed to be a permanent remote flexibility arrangement (most companies went back in 23). When Hillary Super came on she even stated in one of her first Q&A’s on remote work that where people do their jobs wasn’t a big concern for her as long as we continued to drive the business forward. The business is doing the best it ever has in the last five years. Leadership reasoning for mandate is continuing to fall flat. Mandate came absolutely out of NOWHERE.

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