Rodan + Fields Reviews

Pros

Fantastic work environment. Good pay and benefits. Great people to work with and learn from. Awesome products.

Cons

Siloed engineering efforts. Limitation on architecture. Growing pains.

Pros

Good products. Some wonderful colleagues who move on as soon as they possibly can.

Cons

This department has maybe 100 people and loses 4-6 of them a week. People are quitting or going on medical leave for stress-related mental and physical illnesses. If you are a woman of color or a woman over 40 the leadership will alternately ignore and torment you until you get sick or quit, then replace you with a man or a white girl.

Advice to Management

This company’s leadership has demonstrated over and over that they don’t want advice.

Pros

Pay is decent. Product giveways are kind of fun. Cool office

Cons

Terrible strategy on the tech and business side. Managers are condescending, don't listen to employees and seem to have no idea what's happening on the ground.

Advice to Management

Listen to employees. Have some sort of vision for the future.

Pros

QA team is headed by amazing manager and strategic Senior Director, which makes it easy for engineers to work under them.

Cons

Because of its business nature, more production deployments you need to support at midnights. More resource outsourcing

Pros

-Free products perk -Company shares - very few company do this for their employees so this is definitely a huge benefit I’m very thankful for. -You will work with some great people

Cons

While there’s sadly too many to list out, I will highlight why people should think twice before accepting a role here. Extremely dysfunctional Executive suite. No clear guidance to department managers on priorities which leads to poor planning and many “put the fire out” situations. Very broad goals are given by CEO with no detailed plan on how to achieve them. If it’s given, definitely not we’ll distributed. You... have C-levels reporting into C-levels, VP’s reporting into VP’s same with Directors, etc, that should give you some insight into how dysfunctional the leadership team can be with that structure. CEO is out of touch with her employees. HR is absolutely incompetent and with no interest in the employees well being. They will follow rules and orders without considering the actual employee impact. Employees don’t trust HR which is a big reason of the current poor culture. You will be given bigger responsibilities without an increase in pay or promotion. Very common across the entire organization. If you can play the political game, you’re golden. If you’re about going your job and doing it well, it won’t matter if you’re not well connected. This company is VERY politics heavy. Poor compensation for being in the Bay Area. Many employees have left for better paying jobs over the last year. HR just brainwashes managers into thinking there’s a fair compensation plan in place. There’s always budget to bring in outside consultants who don’t deliver anything but there’s no money to improve the lives of their loyal employees. Despite the increase in company initiatives, departments are asked to execute on all with the same staff. So little to no work-life balance. Unless you are someone who can get away with not caring and doing the bare minimum. I could keep going but this should tell you that you can do better, do yourself a favor and find you a better company to put your energy into. This company was at some point a great company to work for. Under the current CEO many things have changed and it’s no longer the company you once felt very proud to work for.

Advice to Management

Please put in place a competent HR department. Your employees don’t trust HR. Take seriously your employee turnover and implement changes. Don’t just talk about culture or focus on meaningless topics like zoom etiquette. I mean seriously? That’s not culture Consider selling the company if you feel like nothing you do improves the morale. Pay your hard working employees better.

Pros

- Free product monthly - good location

Cons

The 'great place to work' impression at the interview is not the reality of the workplace. This place is toxic and leadership has no idea what they're doing. For being a 'start up' culture there is no autonomy or empowerment of experienced employees to get processes implemented or foster innovation for growth. You basically have to follow the directives of senior leaders or suffer the consequences if you dare to... think outside of the box and ask a question or challenge a decision or timeline. Leadership does not know how to 'lead' people, so good luck with your training and development. Turnover is high and they are constantly cutting the budget so you end up doing 2-3 people's job with the same expectations with little recognition or reward. Work/life balance is poor. Leadership leads with emotions, but will be the first ones to preach emotional intelligence if you show any frustrations when they micromanage you to the point of not being able to do your job effectively or efficiently. I witnessed blatant lies and manipulation of conversations from senior leaders to make themselves look better to their management. Leadership does not lead by example and there are double standards for working from home, travel, etc. HR is ineffective and does not have all employees best interest in mind. This by far was one of the worst places I've worked. It's true that most people leave their job due to horrible managers. Review and/or ask about the turnover rate if you choose to interview. By the time I left, half of our team was on the way out. You've been informed.

Advice to Management

- Get some directors that know how to manage people. Or put your current leadership team in some management training asap. - Touchbase with the folks that actually do the work and not just the leaders that talk in circles for hours about nothing in meetings or in phone booths. You'll learn a lot more. - Get rid of the top down, hierarchy mentality. The perception is leadership is getting the products launched... effectively, but in reality they are dragging this company down. There's a reason so many people are leaving. - Investigate departments that have high turnover. You're letting a few bad apples ruin the whole bunch. Get rid of these people.

Pros

Free skincare--the stuff is actually very good. You will get a ton of it--to placate the staff and you get it so they don't have to pay you much. Decent enough benefits. There are plenty of very good, smart, and genuinely kind people that work there. It is easy to make good friends.

Cons

Your manager can criticize you all s/he wants, but there is zero opportunity for you to critic your lousy manager. If you are in a more senior position (manager/director/C-Level) you are golden. For everyone else, you are SOL unless you drink the Kool Aid (there are a few lifers there--and they are much hated.)

Advice to Management

Either really be transparent, or just quit staying that "transparent" word all together, b/c it is so meaningless there. Give direct reports the safe opportunity to judge their managers competency. We have a lot of poor managers here--and there is zero accountability for them. R+F is fine with people leaving left and right and not once has HR ever addressed the staff. Does anyone ever question, "Does this... manager suck? Is this why her team keeps dwindling?" I truly doubt that. Simply put--a lot of manager are okay-to-below average. HR is useless to employees. Management cares more about the BOD than employees. Too bad you treat employees as disposable.

Pros

Sadly, none really. At one time there were good people who cared about your growth and had a sense of high morale but no longer. You get free product, usually close to expiry or something that's being pulled from market, if you consider that a "pro"

Cons

Horrible upper management, racism runs rampant here. Bullying is common and they don't care to address the issue or rectify it. You have people at the top who have been here since the "good" days who are staying and collecting their "shares" each year, but they don't care about much else. Girls are mean to each other here, talk behind everyone else's back, it's terribly painful. There are VP's in positions who don't... even know the details behind simple timelines or production manufacturing details, it's mind blowing, really. CEO is the most cold and heartless CEO I've ever had the displeasure of seeing. Flying private and having your wardrobe flown in is great for you, miss CEO, but employees are in tears and it's so clear, nobody cares. The company is CHEAP when it comes to the people who are delivering the product. Consultants are flown out to amazing destinations while employees are tearing themselves apart to justify a high end package that was ultimately decided on by a CMO or someone in creative. No growth, no stability, no work/life balance here. VP's question lunch orders when meetings are the norm here from 8 am to sometimes 6pm. Everyone is angry, full of stress and this breeds nothing but chaos. Nobody can make a decision here, there's always something wrong and it's pure dysfunction. HR is the most inept at their job, it's absolutely disgraceful, they're not helpful, not knowledgeable and just a bunch of sheep following the clueless pack.

Advice to Management

Get rid of current management, overhaul and get someone new. Or, sell this company off and put people out of their misery. Working here is painful and bad for mental health. If you want to be a SF company, you need to compete with the businesses around you - offer better comp, better benefits and a better workplace with sane people who aren't making others cry on a daily basis. Disgusting.