Tradesy Reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(102 total reviews)

Tracy DiNunzio

75% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Tradesy has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 102 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tradesy employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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102 reviews
2.0
23 Sept 2017

Tradesy: A Start Up Cliché

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free lunch was great, but not necessary. I think everyone would prefer a raise than a free sandwich. You will have some co-workers who are really fantastic. Santa Monica is a nice place to work, and the health insurance is pretty top quality for a fairly low premium. Pay is decent, but more on that later.

Cons

Where to even start. They are a company run by women, but do very little to actually ensure the women that work there are supported and properly compensated for the work they're doing . . . unless you are a favorite of the C-level execs. And you'll know right from the start who those people are. Longevity is rewarded more than actual talent, and real talent frequently goes untapped. People who have been there for a while are all looking for jobs or are trying to figure out what's next. One review here called it Stockholm Syndrome, and that's not too far from the truth. They bribe you with free lunches, unlimited vacation, fun happy hours, and the whole "grow from within" schpiel, which to a fresh young thing out in the working world for the first time can certainly seem like a dream come true. But even with hard work (and you'll work incredibly hard for the promise of . . . free pizza on Friday?), coming by advancement opportunities are reserved for those favorites we already discussed. You will do work that is outside of your job title, and you won't get paid for it. And you will be on Slack. EVERY. MINUTE. OF. THE. DAY. And let's not forget the dogs. So so many dogs. Most of which are untrained and will pee with abandon anywhere they see fit. I LOVE dogs. I have a dog myself. I would never bring my dog to work if it habitually defecated in a place where I'm supposed to conduct business (no pun intended). It's a really cushy gig for the first two-ish months. You've got built-in friends. You don't have to pay for much outside of your rent and the exorbitant booze bills you'll inevitably spend going out 3–4 nights a week with the people who will literally become the only people you talk to. But there really is more to life than Tradesy. And the faster you realize it, the less you'll be stressed out about a company that literally sells used women's fashion online. That website already exists. It's called eBay, and it does pretty well. If you're thinking about working here, just maybe don't? Unless you need health insurance.

1.0
6 Apr 2017

Stockholm Syndrome, Can You Escape?

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-There are some really great people who work at Tradesy, so great that they may just become your life long friends. -People here work very hard, it will inspire you to work just as hard -There is a lot of flexibility with your hours. You can work at home, work in the office, work remotely wherever as long as you manage your schedule well -The product is exciting. Whether you're into fashion or not, Tradesy is at the end of the day a tech company so it appeals to the interest of fashion snobs or tech geeks -The office culture is super quirky. If you fit in that is. Lots of craziness that goes on, never a dull moment. It's complete madness in the best way possible and very fun. -At the time when Tradesy began there was a lot of room for growth. Regardless of how the company is doing now, you can always voice your opinion and if you voice it well to the right people it will be heard

Cons

-Read the negative reviews of this place and trust them wholeheartedly. Tradesy seems like a great place to work in your first three months, but the glamour fades away really fast -SO cliquey. There are a lot of social events that go on and not everyone is invited (not that everyone has to be), but they’ll wave it in your face and make you feel unwanted. A lot of people here don't seem to have personal lives or friends outside of work. Work life balance is important. It is absolutely dead here. -Many people have been fired or laid off very unprofessionally. Lots of miscommunication, poor handling of HR. If word were to get out about how this is/was handled I think this company could go down in flames. -Some people in the office had a lot of sexual tension. This was before there was any hr (not that what they have now is any better). It violated a lot of work policies. Lots of scandalous behavior and debauchery going on at happy hours or bday parties. Beware. -Every team in this company struggles massively, and there is nothing or no one who will fix the problem. You fight to get ahead of your workload, but somehow you’ll eventually drown. You’ll then blame yourself and later realize it wasn’t you. There have been so many smart individuals working here who had potential or came in with great work ethic, but because they were not given enough resources it drove a lot of people to quit, get laid off or fired -Let us not forget that Tradesy acquired Shop Hers and then literally everyone acquired from that team except for maybe 3 people either quit or got fired. Great acquisition guys. -CEO yells a lot, has anger issues, emotional rage and leads with fear. During a company review, many people noted that they were fearful of the CEO. Say much? -Unless you're on the tech team you're really not that important. Member Care? Logistic? Marketing? Sales? Your opinion won't matter since it's the engineers that are really making waves in this company, or so that's what they make you want to think -Some people are grossly overpaid and some teams don't have enough people to carry them afloat....because upper management is getting all the money -Anti-meetings is a lie here. So many meetings. Half of them are useless. -There are some people who have jobs here who don't truly deserve to. They are here because of the favoritism and relationship they have with the original team that founded Tradesy. They'll impart their exquisite taste for how things should be run to the lower comrades of the department, when in actuality their opinion is so baseless.They get to fool around, get paid a lot or have some huge stake in stock options when a lower position worker who is working their butt off is getting nothing. -It becomes very hard to leave this place because you get enamored by false promises, free lunch, dogs and little parties. You fool yourself into thinking you can survive, but wake up. Think of every bad relationship you’ve ever had and how hard it could have been to leave, but how much better of you are now cause you left. That is this place.

1.0
28 Sept 2017

Failing and unstable

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

- free healthcare vision and dental - nice location - free lunch

Cons

- the leadership are lost. they just fired the cto and everyone expects another batch of firings or maybe layoffs as well - a LOT of people are looking for jobs or waiting for the company to get acquired of fail - marketing is lost and just sends the same discount emails time and time again - the small dogs are untrained and not potty trained and the owners pay no attention to them letting them pee in the office and bark at coworkers - all the reviews are right this place is like high school if you are one of The Plastics your fine

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