The perfect place to work if you like feeling afraid and demoralized - Anonymous employee Alcanna Employee Review

1.0
Mar 5, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The retail discounts are one of the only things that makes working here worthwhile. The company is also full of many wonderful people.

Cons

No discernible long-term planning or strategy and no transparency. This company is obsessed with "reinventing" itself every few months, meaning entire divisions will be eliminated without warning, and your boss, or even your role can change from one week to the next. Turnover is constant. Whether you've worked with the company for 6 months or 20 years, you can lose your job warning or explanation, because operational decisions are seemingly made on a reactive whim. The executives' lack of communication perpetuates this sense of instability. There is a culture of unease and uncertainty here, as if the C-suite are perpetually gaslighting their own employees. Even if you manage to get meaningful information from senior management, it's rarely reliable and will often turn out to be outrightly false — up to and including your own job security. The job you're hired for may very well not end up being the job you do, because they either don't understand your role or don't see the value in it, and they're not interested in receiving input or actual data if it goes against "the way it's always been done." Working in my field for over a decade, this is without question one of the most poorly managed organizations I've ever been a part of.

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4.0
Jun 23, 2019
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Pros

Growing company that is constantly reinventing Newer upper management cares about its people Employee Discount is really good Health care that isn't too bad in cost work life to home life ratio isn't that bad when you have the employees Management bonus system in place, though changes a little often

Cons

Sales goals are High right now Growing company causes a lot of changes to have to be adaptable to IT is a little dated for running stores Pay is a little low compared to current market High turnover unless you know how to manage employees and their lives well, lots are part timers because of entry level pay

1.0
Jul 16, 2020
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Pros

Get promoted very quickly with this company.

Cons

Get fired just as fast!

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