Rue Gilt Groupe Reviews

Pros

Nothing to share here, just looking

Cons

Nothing to share here, just looking around

Pros

My time at RGG had many ups and downs. I learned a ton despite weak leadership and management. I attribute this to my amazing peers and the culture we built together and maintained up until very recently despite consistent and prevalent toxicity from the top.

Cons

Prioritization and direction comes from the C-suite at RGG. The leadership team hasn't changed in years and remains unaffected by the recent layoffs... and yet this is the part of the organization that is the most toxic and broken. RGG leadership is driven by ego where every person in a position of real power is looking out for themselves - despite what they will say, they do not care about their actual customers and are more motivated by looking good for their boss. There's a reason their websites and apps haven't changed in any meaningful way in over 10 years - and it's not because the engineering and product teams aren't aware of best practices or what today's e-commerce shopper expects. Perception is reality at RGG - if you make a single mistake it will be held against you for years to come. You would be shocked to learn what voices are allowed to speak on your behalf when it comes to yearly reviews. Today's HR team can't be trusted to do what's right by you. There are no cost of living adjustments, managers are given very few tools to impact your comp, and salaries are low compared to the industry.

Pros

Fantastic work/life balance, company really values it's employees & recognizes you have a life outside of work. Place where you can bring your full self to work, great people, kind environment. Best company culture I have ever worked in and I have worked in many industries. A lot of flexibility to learn new things even outside your scope of work (not siloed environment) and great internal opportunities to grow your career

Cons

No cons for me, but if you are someone use to working in a large 15-30k corp environment this is very different & operates a lot like a start-up, lot of autonomy, some structure - but more flex to build/create new ideas, very innovative. If you like rigid structure/process this could be a challenge for you if you struggle with a little ambiguity.

Pros

Easy Work-home balance Pay Environment

Cons

Favoritism Upper management Outdated Unorganized

Pros

Great collaborative work environment, and good technology

Cons

Need better communication from management

Pros

The engineering department is very remote friendly and work life balance is very flexible, but i still would not recommend working here.

Cons

This company runs on meetings. I was in an IC role but spent 36 hours a week in zoom meetings. Management of this company has no idea what they are doing. I left before this happened, but they recently laid off almost 1/5th of their staff. The layoffs were done haphazardly. They laid off literally all of their frontend engineers. They are an e-commerce WEB SITE. The methodology picking who to lay off is flabbergasting. The company leadership has no vision. One year, in an employee survey, most of the respondents said that they did not feel like leadership has a real vision for the company. With no irony whatsoever, leadership responded to this by holding employee run workshops to define the vision. They came up with a really vague buzz line. The number of active users on the site is in decline and rather than focus on expanding their user base they've tried to get existing, aging, user base to engage more. These efforts have yielded little results. The business side of leadership has been operating with the same tired playbook they have been using since the early 2010s when i first joined. This is not a tech company by any means. Leadership (including engineering leadership) has not invested in improving the company's technical capabilities in years. Efforts to improve the tech stack or provide the business with new capabilities are often vetoed by people who have no understanding of technology whatsoever. The week I left, a product owner informed me that the chief merchandising officer (yes that's a real title) was pushing back on a messaging bus required to build a feature that they allegedly was going to be a major strategic initiative. The CMO has no idea what a messaging bus is. Her objection was that it would add 3 weeks to the project. No effort, regardless of how impactful is ever given more than a quarter to succeed or fail. There's no long term vision. They consistently chase $10 today instead of $100 tomorrow. Because of how short sighted leadership is, the engineering teams are constantly hamstrung tech debt that hasn't been addressed. Core pieces of architecture were written in 2008, and have not been updated since. The result of this is that things that should take a few weeks take quarters to complete. Relatedly, initiatives are frequently abandoned. Even successful initiatives are abandoned to chase the new shiny thing that has caught someone's eye. In my last two years, every project i worked on was scrapped before it could be completed. The product org has no voice or agency whatsoever. They serve mostly as a go between between business stakeholders and engineering. The communication is always unidirectional. Stake holder tells product what to tell engineering to do. Engineering feedback is never considered by stake holders. Tech leadership does whatever it can to ingratiate itself to business stakeholders and do very poor job advocating for the technology org as a whole. They are doing whatever they can to not ruffle feathers and keep a job. They are incapable of showing the business side why the initiatives that tech needs to do are important. There's a very limited career path in technology. Principal is the highest IC role that exists, and the role is really more honorific than meaningful. When i was there I repeatedly asked for a competency model evaluate myself against, but non existed. The management side of engineering is similarly limited. I worked there for almost 10 years. Not once did I see a manager get promoted to a director. All levels director and above were consistently outside hires. This is unlikely to change because the technology org is the smaller than it has ever over the decade I worked there. The layoffs also knocked back a lot diversity. There weren't many POC or women in engineering, but there are fewer now. More women/POC were let go than currently work in engineering. I don't believe this was intentional, but another example of thoughtless leadership in a company that allegedly values diversity and inclusion.

Pros

Nice pay checks. Offer benefits.

Cons

I would not recommend this job.

Pros

Benefits really great overall including maternity and paternity leaves You will work with and meet some truly wonderful people

Cons

Leadership encourages a toxic environment in which nothing matters but the end result. People are just numbers and favorites are played.

Pros

Great team and projects. Everyone is very helpful. You get to work on various projects at the same time.

Cons

Work might be a little repetative.

Pros

Good virtual work environment in a remote setting

Cons

Pay could be better overall