Liz Claiborne Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Liz Claiborne full-time

Pros – small company, close to NY

Cons – lots of work, dying company

Advice to Senior Management – celebrate success to maintain high employee morale

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Liz Claiborne

Pros – To gain experience and take it with you to your next job.

Cons – Corporate culture, poor leadership, lack of vision

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Liz Claiborne

Pros – Lots of perks. Sample sales, summer hours, 21 vacation days

Cons – Upper management is horrible at communicating when big changes take place. Employees find out most of the changes through press releases on the internet. They keep selling all the brands. I would be surprised if they are still in business in a year.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Liz Claiborne

Pros – the ample PTO, 21 days was great
locations near Times Square
benfits

Cons – lack of internal communication
favoritism
promoted more men than women
did not offer flexible working arrangments for working mothers, as they claim

Advice to Senior Management – stand behind your words

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Liz Claiborne

Pros – Great long term associates that have mutual respect.

Cons – Lack of growth and stability,

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on long term profitibility and viablity of the brands.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Liz Claiborne

Pros – Above average pay for your work experience

Cons – Work environment is very poor. Bad news is the business managers fault.

Advice to Senior Management – Better training

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Liz Claiborne

Pros – They had a great benefit package, although it would have been nice to have
a pension out of it.

Cons – Has sold off so much of their brands acquired in the past that they have lost a great number of their customers, yet expect Mangers to convert by selling low quality "fashion".

Advice to Senior Management – Too late to offer advice for Liz. Looks like they will never get back that classic line, have lost their
base of shoppers and instead cater to the teeny boppers by invbesting in all the kiddie lines....DKNY, Lucky, Juicy, Kensie....

Glad to be out of there

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Liz Claiborne

Pros – It is a recognizable company

Cons – very low wages, long hours

Advice to Senior Management – I believe this position needs to be compensated better for the amount of stress and long hours involved. Higher wages for designers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Liz Claiborne

Pros – Good work/life balance, flexible for mothers, good benefits. Decent discounts on products. Excellent legacy in apparel industry.

Cons – promotions and salary are arbitrary. No path for advancement. They thinned out much of the company over the past year without thinking about how lay offs would affect the operations first. You have to know people to get anything done. Poor communication between teams - people constantly ignore emails and phone calls from colleagues within the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in your employees. Stop wasting money on useless office redesigns and collateral.

Current Employee – been working at Liz Claiborne

Pros – great discounts on a variety of brands. opportunity to work at a variety of stores. opportunity to learn different aspects of the retail world.

Cons – The work/life balance is not respected and you are required to continually go above and beyond with no recognition for your efforts.

Advice to Senior Management – Respect ALL levels of employees. Don't treat people as if they are dispensible. You gain loyalty by treating people with respect.