Ralph Lauren reviews

-Huge egos, nasty attitudes and holier-than-thou mentalities coming from Senior Directors all the way up to SVPs. -Frequent layoffs, no sign of change or hope for this company. -No room for growth. SVPs and Senior Directors will clutch onto their team members for dear life no matter how badly they know people want to advance or move to a different label. -"This is how we've always done it" mentality. No interest in ever changing or improving workflow to accommodate older employees and management. -Senior Directors and SVPs use fear as a tactic to control employees. Extreme micro-management. -HR is frequently unavailable and unresponsive to complaints of mistreatment and aggressive behavior from higher ups. -Requests for more opportunities to learn/grow on the team are rejected. -Extreme favoritism and sadly even racism! SVP calling a person of color "lazy" behind his back when he was the hardest working person there, promoting actual lazy people because of their ethnic background/religion, other persons of color who were considered push-overs were held back in their positions for YEARS, and inexperienced friends of the Lauren family being hired in high positions. -Workload was very unbalanced. Some months were extremely busy and weekends were required, while other months people were sleeping at their desks. -Low morale in employees is noticeable and affects many, but nothing is done to help improve the very fixable situations. -Extreme waste in time and resources, more than I've seen elsewhere. Teams are so large, the individuals needing to participate in/lead meetings are often distracted by their phones or their peers talking to them. Meetings can take ages and designs can be made and remade a ridiculous amount of time because 20 people are asking each other, "What do you think?" and not making a solid decision.

You won't get anywhere and they won't like you unless you fit the following criteria: white & blonde (this is the IT look), talk with the following accents (British, French, German and sometimes Italian). if you're ethnic you NEED to be very WHITE on the outside, if you don't fit any of those criteria then you must look like a runway model. Don't know why this company keeps bragging about being a profitable company when they're "Extremely cheap" to hard working employees. You need to be director level and up to get a yearly bonus. No Christmas party or gift for employees. Sends out constant emails telling employees to donate to charity in their name. Maximum yearly raise is 3% if your lucky. Most employees only get 1.5% (excuse is "there's NO budget in the dept"). If you have friends working for other companies in the fashion/apparel industry you'll learn fast that you've been taken as a sucker at Polo. People in other companies with lower titles make twice as much. Upper managements are a bunch of idiots. Mines didn't even know how to use Excel or Outlook, always yelling over to ask me to fix their computer when they press the wrong button. They don't do any real work, just sit at their desk and chat on the phone all day. They go home at six on the dot but make you stay late to do their work that they dump on you at the last minute. Most of those VOLUNTEER-ing (Light the Night Walk, Helping Hands, Free Arts for Kids, Aids Walk, Pink Pony Walk) from team Polo is fake. Some people do volunteer but most are too busy so upper management makes it MANDATORY (force) for their underlings to participate and they're still required to have their work done on time. All those available jobs openings all the time is not because the company is growing is because people resign in batches. There's more horror things I can't fit here but this is the truth so if you do apply to Polo it's at your own risk. It it a slave life. Your treated like a own property that is told to jump when your told to. Don't expect any respect or reach out to HR for help when you feel disrespected. HR is for the company. They will give you 2 options only quit or continue to put up with the nonsense.