A once bright future shattered by mismanagement - Employee UrbanStems Employee Review

1.0
Nov 4, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Junior staff and lower-level leadership work extremely hard to keep the company afloat despite numerous challenges.

Cons

Aforementioned colleagues have to work with horrifically inadequate resources, among them an IT/systems nightmare and corrupt suppliers. Salaries are embarrassingly below market value, no doubt a reason the company has thus far failed to comply with NYC’s new salary transparency laws. Recent layoffs coincided with new, lower salary bands being announced. I regularly watched a member of senior leadership bully others in meetings, and this individual has been protected by HR for years. PTO is often tacitly ignored by leadership and email responses are an unsaid expectation. But don’t worry, you can watch a shrill woman teach yoga from her living room as one of the nine meetings on your calendar on Thursdays. Flowers, while being colorful and fun, are also a hugely wasteful and environmentally damaging industry. The company is doing nothing to combat this at any level.

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5.0
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Pros

Dealing with flower which are not heavy

Cons

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2.0
Apr 21, 2025
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Recommend
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Pros

Remote friendly work environment. Coworkers are great. Flexible work times. Opportunities to learn on the job are abundant.

Cons

Team is highly disorganized. Most key seats have average turnover of less than 2 years. Org-level information oftentimes lost in the chaos. Work often happens in silos. People often pushed into roles they aren't ready for with little to no training. Most managers do not know how to do the work of their reports. Industry is brutally competitive, which is then reflected in the goals you are tasked with completing and the resources you are given to complete them.

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