Toxic Workplace, Disingenuous Leadership. - Anonymous employee M.Gemi Employee Review

Leadership is completely dishonest about everything. They preach transparency and "family" but have no sense of loyalty or accountability to anyone who works there. They talk the talk but are incapable (or uninterested) in walking the walk. There is no real strategy behind business decisions; everything is reactionary, impulsive and hair-on-fire, all day, every day. Leadership is not aligned on company vision/growth, so it's impossible to get anything substantive done because no one at the top can agree on anything, whether it's a consistent brand messaging, what the shoe designs should look like, how the website should function, how to approach retail rollouts, or who the customer is. In short, it's a disorganized mess and any sane person would be well advised to stay far, far away. As mentioned in the "Pros" section, they do hire really great people but then don't let them do their jobs. Lots of bait-and-switch hiring practices on all levels of the company (e.g., they tell you you'll have the freedom to do xyz if hired but that never happens so everyone is highly frustrated all the time). As someone else mentioned, you'll leave with several close friends, having survived in the trenches. And you'll get a crash course in how not to run a business or be a leader, as they all fall way short of the mark. In the time I was there, I saw 17 people come and go (out of a 60-person staff) and I'm told the rate of turnover was equally high the year before. Very disappointing all around.