Only good for fresh out of college - Anonymous employee SHEIN Employee Review

1.0
Apr 22, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I can't think of any pros. It's a job and it comes with a paycheck.

Cons

The place is a kindergarden. They refer to employees as “classmates” and use the educational grading scale for performance reviews. No alcohol served at corporate events because children are not allowed to drink. You don’t get respect based on merit, but rather on your hierarchical position. You constantly feel like you are being talked down to. The culture is, how to put it correctly… authoritarian. Everybody is expected to work for the greater good and ask no questions. Extremely poor communication between departments. A lot of processes are controlled in China, or require China’s approval, which causes significant delays. Difficult to understand how things work or find information about it. There is no published employee directory, so finding people that can answer your question is usually a multi-day task of pinging everybody in chats. Poor talent pool. Significant number of people seem to be hired for speaking Mandarin, but with very little experience or poor work ethic. The retention rate for those I personally considered good talent is 4-8 months. I would only recommend this company to fresh out of college people: it’s a good starting point, and a recognizable brand name. However, for any seasoned professional, don’t do it because you will definitely waist your time here, and will be looking for a new job within months.

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Pros

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Cons

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Apr 27, 2026
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Pros

The company was growing pretty fast and had a startup like pace, until the tariffs happened. SHEIN’s pace slowed down a lot and the company pivoted to cost optimization

Cons

1) company’s leadership, especially the US leadership lacks vision and creates a toxic work culture by constantly belittling people in open and yelling at them. 2) the small group of top leaders almost behave like high school bullies colluding with each other 3) you’ll struggle to survive, let alone succeed, if you don’t speak Chinese. 4) Sheins compensation is significantly below industry peers 5) Daily late night calls with the China team mean a non existent work life balance. You are expected to be available at all times, including late night and weekends

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