Quidsi Reviews

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This is not the place for people who just want to coast or need coddling. You will need to learn your business and take ownership very quickly.

Cons

Hard to move up corporate ladder

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It was great until they got really busy and started hiring temps.

Cons

The business is shrinking and may not be around much longer, it makes the work difficult to enjoy

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Creative team treated like a production line by the rest of the company.

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Comp/vesting structure
Questionable future
Weak and rapidly deteriorating leadership/management
Poor knowledge of own systems
Disorganized
Unstable
Short sighted performance review/promotion process
Politics, not ability, drive career success
Years of very high turnover left very serious gaps that the company has never recovered from
Your contributions will very likely be overlooked
Poor morale
Poor synergy
There was a point when out of desperation staff was asked to write positive reviews here
Disingenuous messaging to staff about importance of Quidsi to Amazon/performance
Cuts corners thoughtlessly (i.e. bring your own plastic cups to work)

Cons

The company is very much a place for business-minded and experienced professionals. Expect a lot of MBAs and finance folks. Extremely competitive personalities. So, culturally, as a more creative person, you may struggle to feel like you fit in.

Cons

There aren't any tools that consistently work, things constantly break and aren't fixed, only patched. Employees do not stay long enough to make a dent in all that needs to be addressed and fixed. Constantly starting over from scratch with little to no tools or resources. Things are usually done half way or left to limp along. Senior management complains and points out issues but doesn't want to allocate money or resources to fix. Customer Care is expected to fix everything under the false pretense of "helping" other teams. Some people can work from home, while others cannot, even though they are not people managers. Every one is a senior manger, senior director, etc. but there are hardly any lower level employees being given direction on the company's focus and goals, or on how to get the job done. No one has any any documentation or real training materials. Trouble tickets, emails, and responsibilities are passed off like hot cakes even though the company has a leadership principle called Own It. You are not only responsible for you and your team. You are expected to make sure employees from other teams that you do not manage are handling their responsibilities. If they aren't, then that means you aren't meeting expectations which negatively impacts your performance rating. Staffing is not adequate in several departments and the typical response is we do not have the bandwidth or capacity. It is also a boys club, very little direction or career development for women but if you are a male under 35, you got it made. You'll fit right in to their clique. If you are male and made it in before Amazon took over, you are set too.

Cons

- Quidsi employees go out of their way to find fault in their co-workers.
- There is zero trust and a lot of negativity and backstabbing.
- It has a lot working against it: a) tiny to Amazon, b) acquired by Amazon with pre and post acquisition employees, c) Jet.com poaching.

Cons

They promote the wrong people to be Supervisors.