Girlboss Nightmare - Customer Service Catbird Employee Review

1.0
Oct 25, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A lovely discount on jewelry that you still won't be able to afford.

Cons

Not a single upper management position is filled by a POC individual. Read that again. Everything about working at Catbird is a facade carefully curated to seem inclusive, positive, and thriving. This could not be further from the reality of working at Catbird. The false sense of community is a complete delusion being projected to Instagram followers and potential new hires. Catbird is by and for wealthy white women. Period. If you do not come from a financially well-off family I truly do not know how you could survive in New York on the salaries offered here. This company exemplifies the absolute worst of the now laughable 'Girlboss' culture. It's a passè and reductive brand identity that feels incredibly outdated and cringe at this point, but no one here has gotten that memo. I honestly don't know if HR and upper management are clueless or simply apathetic. Either way it's shocking and appalling.

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Cons

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