Polaroid Reviews

3.0

47% would recommend to a friend

(52 total reviews)

Oskar Smolokowski

23% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Polaroid has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 52 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Polaroid employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.9 stars).

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52 reviews
5.0
22 Mar 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The encouragement giving by the management group to have a healthy work/life balance. The ability to ask questions or for guidance from peers or managers and actually receive the assistance necessary.

Cons

Our shift from startup to big business.

1.0
16 Oct 2021

No, thank you.

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The actual people doing the work were great and were highly passionate about the brand. I learned how not to run a company after this experience.

Cons

This is for Polaroid's Instant Film division. The CEO is not Mary L. Jeffries (not sure why that's listed here, she seems to have left the company in 2015). Where do I start - I still have anxiety about thinking about this place. The root of the (many issues) stems from the C-level executives that are painfully out of touch with everyone who works there. It's very top-heavy with executive after executive being hired at an inflated salary while underpaid people actually doing the work are quitting or getting pushed out due to the toxic environment. I was at Polaroid for 3 years and had 7 bosses in total - good stuff! Nothing weird to see there. D&I at Polaroid is a joke. The entire executive team, save for a few token women who were hired to put some women on the leadership team after complaints, are mainly tone-deaf white men who routinely gaslit women in the company to be 'more professional' while promoting their male buddies into executive roles. Polaroid happens to be doing great because of industry trends re: instant photography but there is no long-term strategy here. Buy the product, it's a beautiful art form but for the love of god, if you love the brand - don't work here.

1.0
2 Oct 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Some people in the company are nice

Cons

Internal toxic culture with constant change lots of turnaround and burnout because lack of accountability. Iconic name bought not build, and owned by Oil billionaire without vision. Runned by elitist management team, eveything is as cheap as possible. Micromanaging to the extreme. Lacks support of workers at all levels, expects people to do double jobs with a clueless group of old white man board directors making the decisions. Nobody trusts anyone.

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