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LiveTrends Design Group

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LiveTrends Design Group Reviews

2.9

41% would recommend to a friend

(56 total reviews)

Bisser Georgiev

45% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

LiveTrends Design Group has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 56 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The LiveTrends Design Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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56 reviews
1.0
6 Dec 2018

1 man nightmare.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Not formal. Dress super casual. Free food couple times a month. Fast paced. Learn a lot.

Cons

First of all, the reviews that you see stating that the ceo made everyone write positive reviews to blanket the horrible reviews are completely true. I confirmed it with other current employees. (No Shame, this ceo) Ridiculous amount of turnover. The employees that wrote the fake reviews might say people don’t last because they can’t “keep up.” That’s pile of crap. Most professionals that come in this company leave because they realize this company is a dumpster fire. (Mainly because of CEO and processes or lack thereof). Only people that stay have either been grown from lower level positions from when the company started, or people that don’t know their worth. The majority of the people are really great to work with. Almost everyone including the middle management (COO, CFO, DOS, NPD) are hardworking people that often get screwed by the man child that is the CEO. People try to help each other as much as possible, but are completely flooded with work. The ceo is an aggressive, abrasive, and contradicting cancer to this company. Any time someone wants to create a process and do things the right way, he will do whatever he can to just get it done as fast as possible or go over them. He has no grasp of consequences of doing things with just speed because truthfully he doesn’t understand much of anything except for his knowledge about the “industry” (he pretends to though). He openly bashes and threatens work life balance, and doesn’t believe you should leave on time. If you work here, don’t expect much of the family life balance. If you have kids, I wouldn’t work here at all. The management doesn’t understand because frankly, barely any of them have kids. They’re only accommodating if you are hourly, hence you can make up hours on weekends or stay late if you need to pickup/drop off kids. Also, iv only seen that with one person. Everyone has way too many responsibilities (expected for a smaller company, but still it’s just ridiculous)

2.0
12 June 2023

Culture Issues and Weak Values

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Creative environment, young employees, design centered, aesthetic On paper, this workplace looks amazing. The values seem strong and on a walkthrough of the office you’ll see open workspaces, employees chatting, kitchen and coffee maker, and it is all very aesthetic. It looks like the workplace you want to be.

Cons

Gossip, nepotism, cliques, slander, double standards, low pay, lack of support, not employee focused, cutting corners, weak strategy The good features end at the appearances. The senior leadership team is out of touch and greatly ridiculed across departments behind the scenes. Their main motivation is sales numbers. This is only a bad thing because the product quality control, employee culture, logistics, and work life balance really suffer. You are expected to be “on” 24/7. Emails will come through at all hours. You will frequently work 10-12 hour days with no breaks. You’ll see values like team as family and their open door policy which might make you think they’re open minded. This is not true. New employees are criticized for having ideas or talking too much. Senior team members will openly tell you they can’t be fired because they are personally close with others at the company. Present concerns at your own risk! Even after witnessing harassment and bullying and racism you can’t say anything or you will risk your job. They are aware of how to say things and manipulate people and how to really trap you in being dependent on the company. It is very cult like. If you don’t fit in with the toxicity and form alliances you won’t last long. They will openly tell you who they think won’t last long at the company. They say it with pride as if only the special few survive but the truth is that the turnover rate is unprecedented because normal people don’t tolerate that level of manipulation and cult like demand they try to put on employees. This is information they openly share from day one. They will tell you they have had culture issues, gossip issues, high turnover, etc. These things still exist because the people who perpetuate them most are allowed to remain in high leadership positions. The HR department is performative. An employee on my team sent HR a complaint and HR forwarded it to the manager of the department in an email. Wow!! The backlash was astounding. They are unwilling to penalize and handle the toxic members of leadership and they enable the most unprofessional and corrupt culture I have ever seen.

1.0
22 June 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Upper Management is often not in the workplace.

Cons

CEO literally found out about terrible reviews of himself and this company and forced employees to artificially put in fake positive reviews- with fear of retribution for not doing so. Do not believe the hype, this is quite possibly the most hostile work environment out there.

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