Warnaco Group Reviews

Pros

Corporate atmosphere was friendly and supportive. Everyone is willing to educate employees to make their experience and job position fulfilling and well-rounded. Learned a great deal about the retail industry as well as financial planning.

Cons

Mediocre pay and long hours lead to burned out employees who ended up walking around the office multiple times a day.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior management could benefit from some seminars on how to work with employees. Praise seldoms comes after hard work and it seems some employees receive preferential treatment in regards to bonuses and position advancement.

Pros

fast paced environment - get to learn alot in a short amount of time.
benefits are great

Cons

Work are not well orchestrated and priortized and tend to work on it when there is a fire to put out.
React to an issue instead of solving and mitigating the issue.
long hours of work.

Advice to Senior Management

listen to your employee and provide more guidance.

Pros

amazing internship experience with lots of workshops to further learning and helpful reviews.

Cons

i stared at a computer screen all day. upper management tends to give insufficient guidance.

Advice to Senior Management

tell your employees what you want from them, don't just expect perfection when offering minimal guidance.

Pros

Great place to work; wonderful people
Relaxed Atmosphere
Flexible Hours

Cons

Little potential for growth and career advancement

Advice to Senior Management

Warnaco is a well-run company but should continue to allow lower-level employees with opportunity for advancement rather than looking to hire from outside the company.

Pros

fair salary, great benefits, good quality of life balance, good time off. summer fridays

Cons

cannot comment on upper management (CEO, COO etc) but VP and down seem to be clueless in the area and field i am employed in. My direct manager only knows how to manage by intimidation and has a personality disorder so i wouldnt judge based on that. overall good solid company

Advice to Senior Management

hire some management that knows about other areas than there expertise if you are going to assign them to run other types of businesses. Allow direct reports to voice opinion on their manager when manager is inappopriate and borderline abusive.

Pros

Great benefits, summer fridays, discounts on ck jeans and underwear, and that's about it.

Cons

Like I mentioned in the heading..if you're looking to work in a corporate company because you want to grow in your career and climb up that corporate ladder, well this is not the place for you. In my many years here, I've seen only 1 person get promoted. Managers are incompetent, and your yearly reviews mean nothing.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should really learn to appreciate their team. A lot of the lower level positioned employees do majority of the work, while the vp's take the credit. They need to start being leaders, and cut out all the time spent on gossiping.

Pros

The only good thing is that you get free clothes.

Cons

-politics, politics, politics. Very outdated way of thinking. Incompetent management team.

Advice to Senior Management

Get off your high horse and do some real work for once.

Pros

Fair Company, Just out of trouble, Trying to build a better balanced view to its employee, good transparency

Cons

Wastage of Resources, some old horses, Need more steam in this competative envronmt

Advice to Senior Management

Doing a great job at your level. Come down a step and look at the performance of middle tier.

Pros

Warnaco Group offers brand recognition and a great place to gain experience in the apparel industry. There is a team oriented environment that provides great exposure to a variety of different fucntions and business. Its a good place to start a career.

Cons

Some of the downsides of working for Warnaco is its philosphy and practices in supporting any shared service function. There is rarely a committment to invest in or upgrade any type of infrastructure to improve back office efficiences and often not enough people to manually perform the job. Although improvement has been seen over the past 3 years, engagement survey scores are still below average and after the last round of deep layoffs, I expect that number will get worse. Leadership tends to be secretive which creates a very gossip and speculation infused environment. Reward and recognition is NON EXISTENT and poor performance is not managed.

Advice to Senior Management

Listent to employees and take seriously the feedback you receive. Get rid of senior managers that eat up alot of salary and don't earn a days worth of work. Fill the board room with leaders who have the courage to stand up to the CEO.