An Actual Joke... - Anonymous employee The RealReal Employee Review

2.0
Apr 4, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free lunches, great co-workers, set schedule, deal with luxury items

Cons

They will promise you up and down future opportunities, but it's completely misleading and it's the company's way of sucking you into a black hole. All they care about it quotas, not developing or learning anything substantial. So. Many. People. are overlooked and undervalued. Managers are petty, gossipy, and borderline useless. If you want to go back to high school and work a dead end job I strongly encourage you apply/work here.

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2.0
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Pros

Pay and commission can be good, but the structure is unnecessarily convoluted and not as generous as it seems, and you will have no work/life balance if you want to actually make consistently high commission. If you have a true passion for luxury and fashion, you do get a lot of opportunities to handle and interact with special/rare items, and depending on store location you can meet a lot of interesting industry people and celebrities, especially during Fashion Weeks

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Poor and unsupportive management with extremely unrealistic demands and expectations; you will get virtually no training, but are immediately expected to know how to do everything. The overall company culture is just unpleasant and very cliquey, and there's constant employee turnover. The online customer service system is terrible, so you will frequently have to handle customer issues that have nothing to do with you/your sales.

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