QVC Reviews

Pros

QVC gives you work life balance, they management staff carees about your well being and wants to ensure everybody is giving their best. They have very interactive training thathelps build a stronger and well diversed management staff.

Cons

QVC us very big on maintaining their culture, but to maintain their culture they must understand the culture they have working for them. The management staff hasn't realized that culture is define in many different ways for many different people therefore before you manage yor culture you have to understand what the culture is in the area.

Pros

Can't beat the part time flex schedule for the pay you receive.
Management tries to have employee involvement in sites activities no matter what it is.
Most people are friendly and willing to help if you have a question or problem.
Our site tries to practice what they preach to ALL employees.
New site manager is making progressive ways to change how we do business for the better.

Cons

Attendance policy is very strict.
Management will not bend on any policy, no flexibility. They will try to help you find a work around though. Too many policies bog you down and you get in trouble if you don't know about the policy.
Raises are a joke.
Metrics to which you have to follow are strict, they work you like a robot.
Some old time employees have very bad morale, it takes down the group morale.
You can move around to new jobs but pay is not based on experience it is based on pay grade. You will be paid the lowest pay grade possible no matter how much experience you have when you apply for a new job. Some people from the outside are paid more money then if you apply internally for the same job.
There is a lot of passing the blame or that's not my job from HR and management.

Advice to Senior Management

Be fair and consistent at all sites and not just to the salaried members of staff. The company is very executive heavy and they are not held accountable at Studio Park. We have over 76 executives that are a Vice President or higher level in the company. Take a look at the ORG Chart from time to time to see what our structure looks like. It is confusing and surprisingly know one knows who to go to when they have a problem or how you can get it resolved.

 We have no incentives for safety or higher raises yet our metrics continue to increases and more pressure is placed on the hourly workers to be more productive.

Listen more closely to the Q perspective or change the wording of your questions. You have no idea what the pulse of the company is and it's becoming weaker and weaker. You know what happens when you don't have a pulse any more? The company dies and goes into bankruptcy.

The company isn't bad but I would never have guessed they have been in business for 25 years the way it is run. You would think they are still trying to get the investment back for startup seed money how cheap they are to give raises and have nice employee events.

"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."
- Henry Ford

Pros

Amazing work / life balance

Cons

Always busy. Sometimes longs hours; but that's expected as it's tv.

Advice to Senior Management

Stay trustworthy

Pros

-Flexible schedule was only pro

Cons

-Very LOW pay
-Health benefits are expensive
-Supervisors never knew answers to questions even after being there for years.
-Very boring work and monotanous
-Not a great place to work

Pros

benefits, employee discount, cafeteria, nice building and location

Cons

Low pay. HR is difficult to work with. HR is bad at responding and helping employee.

Pros

Benefits and the employees are always upbeat.

Cons

Our department has gone under too many changes, and if you complain you are on there hit list.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn the job before making changes, we have been segrated from the tour route and had to sacrife productivity. It is not form over function and there needs to be a happy medium between the two.

Pros

Benefits, pay, employee discount, 24/7 well known large company

Cons

Management, inexperienced employees, too many politics, no room for vertical growth

Advice to Senior Management

Hire people who know what they're doing and how to manage. People who run online marketing have never worked outside the company and have zero outside viewpoints. They're have narrow-minded and yet are in charge of hiring new people. They end up hiring people who don't know what they're doing. Department is tense. No one looks happy to be there.

Pros

multi platform approach to retailing is in keeping with the marketplace. Benefit package is a strong one, and culture is unique.

Cons

the company is located in sleepy suburbs of Philadelphia, not much to do, or places to go outside of work.

Pros

Growing company
Options available to move laterally in the company
Great work environment and culture

Cons

Opportunity for vertical career development options
Large company with lots of "red tape" for resources

Advice to Senior Management

There needs to be more areas for advancement for team.

Pros

Culture, benefits package, work life balance, family atmosphere, opportunities for advancement, employee discounts when purchasing products from the company, communication by management.

Cons

opportunities with human resource not always having supervisors back when disciplining hourly employees. a lot of time spent on meetings that seemed to be unproductive.