francesca's reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(2,769 total reviews)

Andrew Clarke

55% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

francesca's has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,769 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The francesca's employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Dec 31, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Fifty percent off regular price merchandise, wrote my own schedule as a store manager, loved the customers and making their experience.

Cons

Headquarters doesn't reward the store managers or associates as often as they reward their own office, who work mon-fri, and don't have to sell anything. No bonus even if you miss your month even by a dollar. Constantly changing their merchandising direction without offering payroll to catch up so you have to give experience to clients and then redirect your entire store. If you turn an old store into a million dollar baby for the first time ever since it's open in its 8th year you will receive a chocolate bar for you and your team that probably quit before the chocolate arrives seeing as how they would pay minimum wage to all associates in store.

2.0
Nov 30, 2013

Poor upper management

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fast growing company with a lot of potential, if they could learn to focus more on employee satisfaction. Fun environment to begin with.

Cons

Will probably trend themselves out in 10 years. They have a very poor business plan. I would not go back to work for them. They dont invest much into training either.

4.0
Nov 20, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great coworkers, passion for the product, fun sales environment, great brand, and the rebranding and remerchandising efforts have only gotten better which makes an associate's job easier. Francesca's is learning how to connect stores for fun competition and knowledge accumulation for improving business.

Cons

Not a career building position, experience subject to GM and coworkers, unrealistic sales goals in many cases, hours 'have to' be inconsistent week to week as a scheduling rule (?!?), not able to take long periods of time off work due to low amount of coworkers

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