IPSY reviews

Everyone is overworked, and the general expectation is that everything can be planned and executed in 50% of the time that things truly take. That results in employees working way more than full-time. Many departments are understaffed and cannot get resources needed, and management is not offering market wages to retain or attract talent. In general, executives make unrealistic plans / commitments and teams are struggling to deliver on too many initiatives that are poorly planned and implemented, which means plans change after significant work has been put in and everyone must revisit the entire process. No one works only 40-hour weeks and no one on my team was able to take vacation or holidays off. The pace and difficulties of working here mean people get burnt out really fast.

1. Pay is average at best considering the standards they set during the interview process 2. Chaotic project management means timelines slip and they expect that since you work from home, you should be answering messages (and sometimes working) well into the evening with no overtime pay. 3. They offer some paltry stock options with 5+ year vesting and at pretty high valuations, which means the value there is slim to none. 4. This is related to why stock options are kinda pointless. Turnover is really high. I've seen teams disintegrate in a matter of a couple months and several people in middle management left this past year. They've spent months looking for several positions that still remain unfilled. Some people get promoted into management positions simply because they're the only one of the team that didn't leave. If you want a promotion without really working for it, just join Ipsy and take it easy for a year or two, you'll easily fail upwards as long as you stick around.