ASOS Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Great work life balance Nice people everywhere Not too much politics unless you're going for promos. Lots of cool initiatives like Tech Developers Monthly skill up day as well as 10 percent innovation time (Friday afternoons) Young company, i think the average age of staff is around mid 20s.

Cons

AGILE DELIVERY Managers are generally poor developers from other companies trying their hand at management. ASOS are not good at hiring good managers, I've only had one that I've completely respected and he was promoted twice, rightly so. Poor understanding of the progression process, the skills chart has been updated so many times, no one really knows how to get a promo outside of the pub.. Facade of women in tech initiatives recently to push equality for women, when again women are still not getting equal pay. A wide spread adjustment was done very recently to try and address the difference in pay gap without mentioning exactly the reason why.

Pros

discount and work life balance

Cons

micro managers don't know how to manage which then feeds down into other "managers", they show favourtism. god forbid you express how you feel you are seen as negative and will get managed out rather than them helping to solve the problem. even if multiple people in the team have expressed the same reasons. micro managing seems to be a key theme throughout the company. extremely low salary, no clear progression as they try to keep you in the role at a low level delaying the promotion

Pros

Excellent benefits, one of the best I've received. Birthday day off, 40% discount from the store, 20% from the boutique. Generous bonus available. Fantastic and diverse canteen. Great work/life balance

Cons

Although there were many talented people working there, however there was a drinking culture; some were promoted because based on hanging out at the pub with their manager regularly. I was in the IT department, a large macho culture was present too.

Pros

Great discount, great parties and really innovative on lots of levels.

Cons

Bullying becoming more and more common with a growing blame culture and unfriendly teams. Management promoted on their technical skills and constantly lack the ability to step up manage their people. Lots of cliques and catty behaviour. HR are disorganised and ignore any real issues. They will always side with the most senior person in the room. Work life balance is non/existent- if you are given the rare opportunity to work slightly fewer days you are expected to still do your full time job in that time....with less pay. Health and well-being is promoted as important to the company but realistically they will ignore any problems and class it as underperformance.

Pros

- Great leadership and executive team - Really innovative and people are encouraged to try new things - Brilliant brand, you really feel like you’re part of something exciting that’s growing fast and also it really is a customer centric organisation - Amazing benefits like free gym, 40% discount and amazing Christmas parties

Cons

- Lack of work life balance - No clear career path or view on how to get promoted - A lot of office politics

Pros

Exciting company to work for Great place to learn Talented staff

Cons

Long hours. Bad work / life balance

Pros

- A lot of good perks - good work and life balance - international work environment - great for your CV - fun place to work and to learn more about ecommerce

Cons

- little career progress - I joined the company at the wrong time when they had to made a lot of people redundant in my department

Pros

- Great career opportunities - Collaborative culture - Cutting edge technologies to work with - Excellent long term outlook - Flexible work life balance - Customer first attitude permeates

Cons

- HR department - Some senior managers are toxic - salary rates can be better

Pros

Good Values and Work/Life balance Super Inclusivity and diversity

Cons

Not much to put here, possibly clearer career progression matrix/competences

Pros

Discount code Benefits such as discounted cinema tickets

Cons

Awful management No communication Treat employees awfully Hardly any progression No work/life balance due to shift patter s