Ashley Furniture Homestore Reviews

Pros

Great team members! Comfortable and happy work environment. Good pay and benefits overall within Ashley. Constantly busy, always work to be done. You get the opportunity to travel all over the country/world (in this position) and meet so many people. You build relationships with clients, contractors, marketing specialists and more! Your constantly working on a new project or more a week. You acquire and take on a lot of responsibility with licenses relying on you to provide plans and documents for their new store. Although there is a design department as a whole, you will be very independent with most of your designs and projects.

Cons

Can get overly busy and stressful, company depends and standards are constantly changing, but that can be a pro to depending on how you view it. 9hrs shift days. Turnover times for projects can be very fast, evens rushed most time. Company has high demands and standards (also can be a pro). Not enough communication between departments and the hierarchy in management can feel large and far and in between. Sometimes the hierarchy feels too stretched out, takes a lot to get ideas or concerns in the right lap because of chain of command. A lot of time can feel wasted on asks from owner or development that never go through.

Pros

people and or employees easy to get along with

Cons

create an exorbitant sales quota to meet every week and many times not enough customers to feed the rather large number of salespeople on floor which varies from 10 to 15 at one time on a pretty consistent basis

Pros

Leadership has no clue what they are doing.

Cons

Making furniture cannot be this hard. We have figured out how to make it hard. Owners are not really the owners. They are run by franchisees. Cannot find a good leader in the organization. They have had the same leaders for 30 years. No creativity, just threats to keep making low value furniture. Pay is a joke as they are stuck in the 80's with their pay bands. Civic has made them rich but they will not share the money with the employees.

Pros

I only like my colleagues.

Cons

For starters, your process for writing sales is entirely outdated and too long. We have to write everything out on paper, pull it up on POS (keep in mind the POS system is not updated), and then input information into Trax. If I was not working here I’d walk out. You definitely need to invest in user experience designers and better developers. This process is too long. The pay structure is not explained well enough for us. You basically get minimum wage if you don’t hit your KPIs. The KPIs are bedding, credit apps, protection plans, and profit margins greater than 50%. The furniture in Florida is not for younger families. I’ll just say that. The contemporary/modern section isn’t contemporary/modern. Think they just need a newer more innovative team. A fresh pair of eyes. You also will not get paid until your orders have been delivered (could be 4-14 weeks), and also you will not get paid on that if you leave or they let you go. It’s basically a, “Hey let’s pay this person minimum wage for 3 months and see if they make it to $50k in sales by then.” Because that would mean they’d have to keep you. This is a heavy turnover position.

Pros

Discount Employee Furniture, Great Managers and Co-Workers

Cons

Broken Supply Chain, Deceptive Commission Plan, First 39k in sales goes to the house.

Pros

*Extensive training- explaining every detail of furniture in order to build value to product *Very professional atmosphere *Cardone University Classes( Paid by Company) *Top of the line products * Learned on how to over come objections

Cons

If you missed even one day from work you’d feel so lost because a lot occurs within a days work making it one of the best stores know for furniture sales.