Crate and Barrel reviews

The company does not reward longevity or dedication. I left over a year ago after they stealthily began letting go of many employees who had worked there for over 10 years without any forewarning. I just heard recently that they fired the entire QA department except for the new managers/director. Even if this wasn't the case, the technology is so old that almost everything you learn from working here does not translate directly to any other company, so you're not helping your career path much. On top of that, management is EXTREMELY negative with almost no positive feedback. They also require workers to record what they worked on down to 15 minute increments, but then pressure hourly employees to work past 40 hours without saying it outright so they can't be sued.

It is the middle management that has been there for 20-30+ years that refuse to really change and grow. The technology that HQ builds never works for the stores since the middle management have no clue in terms of how to execute these technologies and provide constructive feedback. Half the time they don't even know how to use zoom or google sheets. There are so many different opinions and lack of prioritization from the middle management that it makes everyone in the stores run around without proper direction. Much like every big company - there are politics, but this place has a larger group of middle management that doesn't support employees who have new ideas or want to make a change. There's no accountability held at the corporate level since everyone in the store level is running around fighting fires at each moment without even time to sit down and take a second break. The staff is overworked mainly due to the management that runs the place without real project management skills or any technical skills.