Lets just say, I've had more professional, experienced, and knowledgeable supervisors throughout my career. Supervisors who don't work at a slow pace and have a decent level of creativity for a Sr. position.
The company culture as a whole promotes and prefers an extremely laid back, less passionate and hard working employee. Having drive, an intense level of creativity, knowledge, and focus is not valued or considered important here.
The Integrated Marketing department is not a fast-pace environment, where you are juggling multiple tasks at once and consistently getting new tasks to add onto your "to do list" every week.
You have to spread out the time that you work on each project, so you stay busy every week (An employee can only spend so much time everyday researching industry trends, social analytics platforms and pitching social analytics business for informational meetings about products and prices. This isn't very productive).
You come in at 9am and you leave at 5pm, sometimes at 4:30pm.
The company has a high-turn over rate.
Typical office politics, and catty behavior from women in the office.
Human resources is overbearing and problematic (Typical of most HR departments within organizations). The fake hugs and insincere encouraging words of wisdom are hard to swallow at times.
People in this department do not work hard, unlike other departments at Frederick Goldman (People in the industry know this).
Security staff are a little questionable, in terms of behavior and interaction with employees.
After leaving the company, I felt like I wasted my time, energy, creativity and hard work at Frederick Goldman.
This is a very arrogant company and group of staff, when they aren't even one of the most recognized luxury accessories companies in the world like Tiffany & Co., Cartier or Harry Winston. I emailed so many of my editorial friends, many who didn't even know what Frederick Goldman was.
