Velour Reviews

2.3

29% would recommend to a friend

(10 total reviews)

Mabel Lee

25% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

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10 reviews
2.0
28 Feb 2023
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Pros

Working at Velour will definitely teach you new experiences and you'll grow exponentially in terms of skills. You'll have exposure to working with different departments outside of your expertise and will meet some talented individuals. You get health benefits to an extent so definitely a pro if you don't have any already. I would only recommend working at Velour if you don't have much going on in your resume and you want to build more than one skill at once.

Cons

There's no such thing as work life balance, working on the weekends and outside of your work hours is expected as part of your low salary. You have to learn to speak up for yourself and fight for your peers or management will just trample over your work. Don't expect a raise any time soon, you'll always be underpaid for your role regardless of what department you're in. Got vacation days saved up? Nah, you're most likely not going to be able to use it without working on vacation too. WFH during covid was the biggest blessing in disguise as you were able to vacate yourself from the toxic work environment. You will be forced to learn new skills and do work outside of what you were actually hired for, and publicly belittled amongst your peer if you're unable to adhere to their expectations of going above and beyond. You also will most likely be hired for 3 roles for the salary of one. They also stress how they empower women but if you do the research, not a lot goes into empowering women within and outside of the company. Loves to join the bandwagon for any social charities that are trending but caps the bare minimum in donation. I went over 6 months without direct leadership in a team of 2 for a long while before hiring help under us. New leadership was not implemented until a year in and I made many achievements and built long lasting programs from the ground up, yet received no notable recognition, promotions, raises.

1.0
26 Dec 2021

Not Worth It

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- WFH due to pandemic

Cons

- No HR and while they say you can “talk to you leaders”, they all have zero experience managing people and leading a team so there is more than often no solution - No pay raises for over 2 years - They continue to leverage the “start-up” environment as the reason for a lack of policies & procedures however they’re a business whose been around for over 10 years - lack strategy and guidance - overwhelm every department because they prefer to not hire more help or are too cheap to, unsure which one. Employees don’t sleep and can’t even take a proper vacation because their department will crumble if they are not there. CEO expects this. - zero development and succession planning. You can gain experience if you take the initiative for yourself, but leaders and team do not guide or even know your career aspirations ( they actually never asked or cared. They barely know your birthday or name) -Dry and quiet office environment- Ive actually had an anxiety attack from how awkward and unwelcoming this place is. -CEO favours and sides with people on their team most of which are close personal friends - Lots of gaslighting and lack of trust - constant changes to pipeline and strategy making it impossible to do your job properly

1.0
3 Mar 2020

Terrible CEO, unethical, high turn over

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The dog Young office environment Company outings Good coworkers aside from the CEO

Cons

CEO is incredibly petty and has absolutely no business managing anyone. She talks behind peoples backs and consistently plays favourites. Lacks person-ability and takes everything personally. Will ice you out based on little things. Incredibly fake to your face, sends other members of upper management to do her dirty work. Office is incredibly dry and quiet. Constant changes in pipelines which makes organization hard, CEO lashes out when things have to be rushed despite it being her fault. Plenty of unethical business happening behind the scenes, lacks real transparency in the office and to their customers. CEO is cheap and doesn't pay what the talent is worth, instead blankets value into buying office coffees or company outings. Only way to get ahead is to brown nose to the CEO. No HR department, so if you have a problem it will never be solved because the CEO doesn't have a single bone capable of leadership or empathy in her body. Company would crumble without the Director of Finance.

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