Great Industry Pationant People - Anonymous employee MAG Retail Group Employee Review

Family feel, benefits, discounts, and people.

Still areas for improvement across the organization but can appreciate the drive and focus for improvement.

- Self starter environment - Benefits were okay, not the best but not the worst - Outside of busy season work life balance has been good - With the move the company has been more dynamic / open to suggestion. This could be seen as good or bad.

The following are my opinions having worked for this company for many years. - Corporate decided to merge all operations and move to Texas away from Iowa and Oregon, losing a lot of domain knowledge and stunting a culture of innovation and hard work. - Sexist work environment, you won't find many women in important leadership positions here. - Current management has killed the self starting culture. Most managers already have a system they want to build and expect you to fall in line. - Current management is very set in their ways despite claiming to be open and dynamic. - Cronyism / Nepotism, if you know someone who knows someone you'll get a job here, regardless of your competency. - Inappropriate humor, political and borderline illegal religious favoritism. - Lots of back-channel office politics / sniping. - Upper management is currently in chaos, lots of turmoil and restructuring. - Marketing leadership is left wanting - poor direction, very little planning. - Salaries are below market average and raises have historically been abysmal. You may need to negotiate hard when starting. - Very little career development is offered, they have tracks for advancement but there don't seem to be paths / goals defined.