Reformation Reviews

First off, yes, all of the good reviews are fake. It is well known at the company that people are told to write positive good reviews (or else...). On the outside, this seems like a great company and great place to work, until you realize that the whole place is run by a dictator who feeds off making others feel insecure and defeated. She changes her mind everyday causing significant rework and confusion, loves finger pointing and is the most condescending person I have ever met. Even if you don't have to interact with her directly, she touches everything so her horrible energy permeates every role. Every week someone is in the garden crying, someone else is fired without warning or logic, and someone else is moved from one role to another without any say or discussion. The CEO has very high aspirations for the company, but she will ultimately fail. You can't treat people like dogs and survive for long. Additionally there are some serious ethical issues with some of her decisions and with how she treats business partners (lying, not paying...)

Lets just start by saying that the bad reviews on here are, in fact, very very accurate. There is a non existent Leadership team - they all left within six months of each other last year (50% of them lasting less than a year). HR is also non existent because the team they brought in to help with the morale issues and insane turnover rate ended up getting fed up with doing the CEO's dirty work and left - again all within six months of each other. Ref hires young people because they know they can pay them less and work them harder. Getting a raise or a title change is like pulling teeth. The only way to even be remotely successful at Ref is if the CEO acknowledges your existence, the VP stops tapping her foot long enough to learn your name and COO likes you - because honey, if she doesn’t, you won’t last long. Overall Ref has created a toxic work environment that has been further cultivated by the CEO's inner circle...imagine Devil Wears Prada, West Coast edition: No one can be trusted, everyone is pitted against each other and teamwork is not rewarded. When I see posts about women empowerment and ‘my meow my choice’ tees, I am almost dumbfounded that a company could promote something that is so opposite of how they actually practice. The CEO is a businesswoman who knows what sells well - thats it. She doesn’t empower women, she brings them down to level where she can control them and then she lets them go when she no longer finds them useful.