Overstock.com Employee Reviews about "work life balance"
Updated Nov 19, 2021
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- "Some great people but sadly they're overpowered by bureaucratic bigoted leadership that points blame at others" (in 120 reviews)
- "management are often promoted to positions they have not earned or are incapable of doing." (in 56 reviews)
- "Upper management is always looking at the next big thing and leave other ideas partially implemented and broken." (in 55 reviews)
- "Nepotism and cronyism are rampant and act as a plague to the morale of the employees." (in 43 reviews)
- "If you get one of the bad managers, you are watched like a hawk, told what to do, and given no freedom to experience the good things about the company." (in 24 reviews)
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Reviews about "work life balance"
Return to all Reviews- Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Work life balance is good but they are not growing
Cons
They fire people when their projects go wrong and most of them do
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Revolving door
Jul 9, 2015 - Leadership Member in Salt Lake City, UTRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
*401k, *the people in the trenches are hard working and innovative. *Compensation is at market for most
Cons
*Constant turnover at the highest level of the company. In the last two years we have lost our SVPs in people care (HR), business development, technology, and legal. Look at our 5 year turnover rate of the leadership group. We have also lost several VPs, Sr. Directors, Directors and Managers. Although these are spun as people moving on for personal growth many of us see how people are forced out. *Work life balance: This should be called work balance because you have to balance work and hope for a life. While it is understandable to have to do some long days while part of management this is beyond. People, myself included, have cancelled vacations, missed recitals, games, graduations, weddings, funerals, and more. Meetings are a way of life in the company lasting into the early evening making it very difficult to plan anything outside work. *Nepotism: Amazing how family members of the highest ranking people in the company are all in fortuitous positions ( we call it the first family- that should be self explanatory). *Fear based leadership: I have seen numerous people reprimanded in a group setting, so much so they left the company. It is not uncommon for the President or SVPs to call a person into a meting and publicly humiliate them. I have also seen a manager, director or sr. director lose their job carrying out the vision set forth by the senior executive team and then vilified after they leave. People in all areas of the company are in constant fear the President will release her rage on them and they will be out of a job. This should not be a surprise since the motto is 'if you are not going to kick a man while he is down, when will you kick him'. *Talking out of both sides of our mouth: We celebrate our military service members (as well we should) by touting their leadership and other abilities. Where are they? All our military who were in leadership roles are gone. What happened? good one day gone the next. Does our culture not mesh with their traits? Great we support Wounded Warrior Foundation and Special Warrior Fund, but money donations are not everything. Give a man a fish... *Tail wagging the dog: If our Senior Executive team is not going to back and trust our 'leadership team' (VPs, Sr. Director and Directors) why have it? *No direction: we rarely give an idea or new business unit a chance to take off. Each project is given minimal time to correct bugs before someone feels they need to swoop in and save it or scrub it and move on.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Work life balance is good
Cons
->Bonus = null ->Don't know the priority of the projects. In fact management people don't even know what's going on and just demand the developers to do what's said without even knowing the feasibility. ->Poor pay -> No job security ->->You never know when you will be fired without any reason.
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Very focused on good work/life balance. Opportunity to work with great people and cutting edge technologies. Compensation is competitive.
Cons
Upper management is constantly changing which leads to continues shifts in marking initiatives that seem to hurt corporate profitability.
- Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
The people are great people
Cons
They tout work life balance but it’s an illusion
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Very happy working at Overstock
Aug 15, 2015 - Database Administrator in Salt Lake City, UTRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Very skilled and knowledgeable co-workers Excellent Managers and Directors in the operations department The pay is very competitive Strong encouragement of work/life balance 401k and Health Insurance are great
Cons
Lots of work to do, not enough people to do it.
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
CS-5years working there
Sep 4, 2016 - Customer Service Representative in West Valley City, UTRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
The 'extras'. Lagoon Day, benefits, counseling (get this it's on-site..that should tell you something), Overstocktober celebrations.
Cons
Have PTO? Too bad, you can't use it. Work/Home life balance is awful! Don't speak up or speak out about things that may be wrong, you will get fired. It's the new tyrant CS VP leader, don't let her fool you, she's the devil in disguise. The Overstock they once were and boasted about is dead. There's too many cons I could go on for days so I'll end it here.
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Good work life balance
Dec 14, 2021 - Senior Front End DeveloperRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Overall Overstock was a good place to be a developer. At the time the tech stack was modern and the work life balance was great.
Cons
There were massive layoffs when I was there (mostly non-tech)
- Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Could be great... but needs help!
Feb 28, 2019 - Designer in Salt Lake City, UTRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Great work life balance Great co workers (depending on team) Facilities are really nice IE cafe, gym, health clinic The work life balance is great and depending on your team it can be really great. I made some life long friends there. Benefits are really good including health insurance and also amenities there. Has the potential to be a great brand if they had the right people in charge.
Cons
Leadership needs to really think about what they are trying to do, make a decision and stick with it. Are they a retail, cryto currency, or tech company? Yes some people can be all those things but overstock? not so much. Allow people to do their jobs, there needs to be less over site on things that don't effect the bottom line. Stop micro managing. Also you should let some women into the boys club at the top. Your main customer is a woman after all, maybe listen to your female employees thoughtfully. Nepotism is alive and well there when at times is fine as long as the person coming in can do the job. HOWEVER when that person is allowed to talk about how they can't be fired that is disrespectful to the other workers. Don't hire your friends if they can't do the job. Just know at the end of the day if you are NOT a man, white, and religious that upward movement is extremely hard. It's a good first job to get a "tech" company on your resume and a good experience on how to play politics. You will get paid just fine and if you just need a job you will do fine but it is NOT a longer term career company by any means, and they will cut you faster than you want to believe. Many co workers where dealt with in such a manner. They are in the business of making money, nothing more, and as long as you know that and are okay with that this could be a place for you.
Continue readingWe are about the most Color and Gender blind firm I know of in Utah, anyway. Of the 6 Retail SVPs, 2 are female. And 2 are People of Color. Of the 24 +/- 24 VPs, 8 are female and around the same number or more are People of Color. So 1/3 of executives in a tech company are female. I think that is pretty unheard of. We have a dedicated program to find and promote females. We have given numerous scholarships to go through a year training at the U, dedicated to preparing women for leadership. So I am not sure what to make of such claims.
- Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Lots of promises - little delivered
Jul 6, 2017 - Anonymous Employee in Midvale, UTRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
401k with 6% match, vesting from day one Nice campus with gym, medical clinic, coffee bar Benefits are OK Work/Life balance can be good depending on what group you work for
Cons
Where to begin. There are lots of great people and talent but senior leadership is not where you'd find it. There are some great directors and some vice presidents, but most senior leadership are best friends of the president and CEO. Some have no functional or operational experience in the areas they're over. Lately they have been hiring people just because they have a certain .com on their resume but again no experience whatsoever in the areas they will be over. Leadership changes directions and whims as fast as people change underwear. We bandaid fix things instead of proper upgrades, enhancements, or plain common sense when doing deployments and rollouts. We're told to rush out projects before they are done, just to get something out. Tripping over dollars to pick up dimes is a common theme. The culture is so toxic and getting worse. Many of the people that are causes for this toxic culture seem to get promoted while those who work hard, produce results (backed up by numbers and stats), and add to the bottom line of the company are passed up because they aren't drinking buddies or related to someone in senior management. If Obi-Wan kenobi were asked about working here he'd say, "Move along. This isn't the company you're looking for."
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