kate spade Reviews

Pros

Friendly, intelligent, creative , professional work environment

Cons

very good at pleasantly beating around the bush.

Pros

creative, young and a team environment

Cons

there is a lack of structure

Pros

Competitive - keeps sales motivated
Good working ethics and values
Inspirational fashion environment
Good incentives in store
Great management staff

Cons

Not many negative things to say about working here. Working part-time, it's hard to move up. Competitive sales environment can be intimidating

Advice to Senior Management

You guys are doing a great job. You really represent the ideology of the brand and inspire your employees. Keep it up!

Pros

Product, and staff were great

Cons

Not a lot of room for advancement.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a good look at the upper management in your specialty shops. Some of your best employees are not in the best roll.

Pros

Good discount if you like the product. Casual dress code in corporate office. Work/Life balance when it comes down to it they give 5 weeks vacation during the year.

Cons

They spend wastefully on out of office meetings and parties. And then to compensate their overspending they lay off people who care about the company and keep it running well so that the upper management can continue to receive bonuses and yearly raises. I do not want to say it but have seen it so many times there.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep an eye on people working overtime who play around online during the day so that they can look good my staying late and getting their real work done then and getting paid OT for it.

Pros

Small, growing, creative business with potential

Cons

Work space, hours, politics, technology

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate

Pros

The discount, the merchandise, and it's kate spade!! It's a great place to list on your resume because of the type of customer service they teach you to provide.

Cons

There are not a lot of opportunities for advancement. The stores are small staffed and most managers and assistant managers like their jobs.

Advice to Senior Management

Management communicates well with employees, keep the line always open,

Pros

High energy, fun atmosphere. Encourages new ideas.

Cons

If you don't look like a model and fall between the age of 21-35, you just don't fit, no matter your skills and talents. Way too much focus is placed on looks, attire and personal style. It's as if they want their retail environments to look like a slick magazine ad.

Advice to Senior Management

Real, talented, and smart employees are not paper dolls. Not everyone is born with perfect skin and shiny hair and teeth, instead, have a brain, lots of imagination and drive!

Pros

Great pay compared to similiar companies and positions. $25 new hire shoe was fantastic incentive, along with great holiday contests

Cons

They closed many stores with little to no notice to employees. District manager did not know what was going on at any moment.

Advice to Senior Management

Get new district managers, keep stores open to increase consumer confidence about your product.

Pros

Great product , great management, their is a great work / life balence i never feel stressed out, i am always happy to go to work and it is just a fun, sweet company to work for.

Cons

slow times in economic hardships reflects in our business for a while people were scared to buy, plus i hate returning internet return it is negative against the person taking the return and the store it should not be a reflection of our business as if we had this person in the store she may have found an item she was satisfied with

Advice to Senior Management

sometimes allocations sends us replenishments of things we are not selling and not enough of what we are