ASOS Employee Reviews about "sample sales"

Pros

Friendly team Good discount Sample Sales Summer hours

Cons

Bad salary Work flexibility just for some areas, not so flexible in finance The company wants a big company results but acts like a startup in some areas High turnover of people

Pros

Nice office environment, gym, canteen where you can buy food, sample sales, benefits. Very easy to book in holidays.

Cons

Whilst interviewing the company tells you how much they like to push their employees and how much space to grow there is. However if you work for the office in Watford you will have have almost no chance to move up and change to the London office, even if your skills are amazing, they rather hire externally. A lot of talented people get stuck there and can't build their career the way they wanted.

Pros

The teams are great, there is always something fun going on in the office and sample sales are great for finding hidden gems

Cons

The environment is very fast paced and can be hard getting started

Pros

Vibrant and bustling place to work. Company does a lot to bring workers together and keep them happy such as sample sales, free drinks, parties

Cons

No real care for the people who have worked there for years. Everyone is replacable. Everything goes through HR. Much more of a business rather than a creative environment

Pros

good discount and sample sales

Cons

Environment is like being back at school Most of the employees are very young and childish with no empathy for customers Some management are very 'clicky' making hard to confide and trust them

Pros

Sample sales and a really nice cafeteria and building.

Cons

Management, feels like school and lack of progression

Pros

The atmosphere at ASOS is lovely, there is a really team spirit within the teams. They give you a lot of on the job training (not specifically to do with your job role) such as money management, career progression, mental health, hearing from successful people within the business. The building is wonderful, the canteen has some amazing and cheap food. Of course a big bonus is the discount and sample sales.

Cons

It terms of progression, it is a strange process. You have to interview for the next level and will be put against external applicants. These interviews also only happen twice a year so you could be waiting a while to even have the change to have an assessment day for a promotion. There also a bit of a sense of disorganisation in terms of systems.

Pros

Sample sales Discount Sometimes free product from team Very social business

Cons

Large workload Minimal training and they expect you to get it first time

Pros

Generally very good life balance and hours. Fridays finish at 5 instead of 5.30 and for three months of the year you get to finish at 3pm and enjoy the summer. Last Friday of the month the company puts on free beers for staff. Also a good thing. Generally a very good, close IT development department with many highly skilled and clever people pushing each other to expand their knowledge. The company covers some really interesting technologies and there were opportunities to learn lots about emergent tech trends which could shape the site and various tech products in the company further. This 'give it a go' attitude is something they should be proud of. Fortnightly sample sales are good but over the years less good stuff was in them - I think the buyers themselves started to take anything they want home for themselves.

Cons

For a company where it's shop window and everything behind it relies totally on IT, the directors seem to know soo little about IT and as a result have gone through a chain of hiring sociopath to sociopath to be in charge of large parts of or all of IT over the years. They want a new, interesting company like ASOS to be linked to their career and use big names of other (often much more stuffy) business to get in through the door, then pull the IT department back into the 20th century. The worst one was a recent CIO hire who started with a statement of intent of who they are and what they want to and don't want to do. Very quickly each of these promises was broken. Even worse, heads under them were replaced by people they had worked with in every company from the past 6-10 years of their career. These people were not brought in on merit. The result was a very strong cult of personality driving people out of the company, a swelling contract budget (more mates brought in) and importantly very little credible, long term value to the business. Having worked at the company for a long time it made me sick to see such a sought after and popular company get taken in by these people. Not unusual I know but HR really are the pits, smiling assassins but dressed up to the nines.

Pros

Staff discount Sample sales Good canteen

Cons

Toxic management Slow progression Terrible pay