Christie's Reviews

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Stress. New hires on the specialist track (I.e. cataloguers) should be prepared for 70+ hour weeks during deadline, which is biannual and can last for months at a time.

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Work/life balance. Employees not valued or invested in (both financially or in a professional development sense). Nepotism favored over those who are talented and work very hard.

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No work life balance. Low pay, way below market.

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- Poor work-life balance. In the larger departments working 60-70 hours a week during busy periods (generally 4-6 months out of the year) is the normal - some roles regularly work even more than that for weeks on end

- Very low pay. Company knows there are few alternative options for people who want to work in the industry and therefore has small incentive to allocate any more budget than is absolutely necessary to employee salaries

- Limited growth potential. In many cases promotions carry only nominal pay-rises that are incommensurate with increases in responsibility

- Company has made numerous statements in the past year about being committed to and investing in its "people" but many employees, especially those at intermediate stages of their careers, have seen tangible, meaningful results

- Have had multiple experiences of a senior level manager making both implicit and very clearly explicit promises & commitments about career development only to have them be conveniently forgotten about, reneged on completely, or in one specific case adamantly pretend that an offer was ever even made

- Company has very little ability to retain talent

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Uniformity. Requirement to use locker room for personal affects.

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No upward mobility, relatively low pay.

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Very busy during the auction sales

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Very little internal growth for most people
Favoritism and elitism is rampant
Overworked and underpaid
The general attitude here is terrible and instead of trying to solve problems, many people here like to point fingers, lay blame, and belittle others

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long hours, hard to move forward

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slow or no career growth