Nu Skin – “The things lot's of employees whisper, but never stand up and say.”
Pros
Humanitarian efforts and focus on doing good in the community, world, etc. are great. Free products.
Cons
Everything else.
A few:
1. People are just "happy to be there"--no ambition, no drive, no motivation to have an impact. People refuse to take accountability. People stay in their jobs forever and there's no real career development opportunities.
2. Young people get frustrated because of #1 and leave--most of my most talented co-workers who had the biggest ambitions left to go elsewhere
3. Promotions are a joke--no real rhyme or reason. Definitely not based on qualifications (I was not passed over for a promotion, so this isn't just some bitter former employee's griping). Some were promoted strictly because of their gender. Others had no real qualifications.
4. Too conservative--competitors much more innovative and aggressive
5. Disconnect between top management and everyone else--I personally heard HR generalists say that negative feedback/info was removed from presentations delivered to the CEO and executive committee--not the best way to run a business . . . this was confirmed by someone I met who interned there, too, IN THE HR DEPT.
6. Compensation is dreadful
7. It's an MLM so the independent distributors run the show and the executives bend over for whatever they want, even if it makes no strategic sense
Advice to Senior Management
Please don't brush off my comments. Too many employees share these sentiments to ignore them. NuSkin has such a great story and ability to have positive impact on the world around us to let it slowly implode because of it's internal culture of complacency. Don't let good, young talent go. You've lost more star performers than you'll ever realize--many to your competitors. It's a worthwhile investment.