Negative Experience - Anonymous employee Victoria's Secret Employee Review

1.0
Nov 15, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They fit you for a bra during training

Cons

-Toxic, negative environment (5th ave, nyc) -ridiculously high sales goal per hour -very competitive, people will steal your sales -training took 3 days and I learned nothing besides the "values" of the company...which are not practiced outside of training -no grace period...living in NYC managers know the MTA is bad and they do not care -everyone is scared of management -mandatory meetings on days you are not scheduled to work...are still mandatory if you requested off/are unavailable that day because of school or a second job. -discount is really bad

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