Not a bad place to start one's career. but bad place to stay
Pros
- this is a great place to work if you are fresh out of college and want your first corporate job, or are looking to change careers -they are often one of the few places often still hiring during periods of economic uncertainty in the US -great training program. They train everyone extensively even if they know someone is not going to be with RH for a long time - you will meet lots of people and make connections if you work at home office in Corte Madera or Tracy if you work at RH. Cannot say for the Ohio office - most people who work for RH are pretty cool, whether it be at home office, in Tracy, or in the galleries - RH looks good on resume regardless of industry. - highly diverse workplace in background and education.
Cons
- benefits are not generous unless you've been with the company for over 5 years. They are weird about approving time off. -some teams consistently understaffed. there was a high level of burnout over the holidays that still has not recovered - they make you come into the office during the week, but actively discourage collaboration amongst associates. Low level and customer service team members are pretty much chained to their desks by their headsets doing jobs that can easily be done at home as they aren't talking with other colleagues anyway -RH is not great for career mobility, it is easy to get trapped in a low level position that you are overqualified for. - in higher positions, work life balance is non existent. Your job becomes your life at the director level and even some of the leadership levels - seniority/years worked at RH is valued over experience, skills, or education. -extremely high turnover rate. It is joked about amongst leaders and directors, but I do not think high turnover is good or funny - there is a cult of personality around the CEO, when in reality he gets most of his ideas from other people -home office is located on a marsh and often smells of sewage. The Tracy office lacks windows - New moneymaker is the Rooftop restaurants; CEO knows little about the restaurant industry (or about good food in general) and in result makes a lot of bad decisions regarding them. Too much caviar on the menus... - the values alignments are cringe, often highlighted by Patch Adams or inspirational speaker clips, which no one with a brain likes. participation at these alignments is judged, which ends up being public brown nosing from the same 3 people every time
