Rue La La Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Rue La La full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – They have great benefits. 3 weeks paid vacation after 90 days (pro rated). health benefits immediate upon hire

Cons – Do not have consistant work practices.

Advice to Senior Management – Be consistant with all practices.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Rue La La as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Everyone is very professional and helpful. There is a "cafe" with snacks and drinks which is nice. The culture is great.

Cons – They seem reluctant to hire people permanently. Most people are hired as temps.

Current Employee – been working at Rue La La full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – good people, casual office environment

Cons – chaos, inefficient, lack of clear direction

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Rue La La full-time

Pros – Great brands at great prices. Strong sales so company should be considered pretty stable.

Cons – Management doesn't listen to employees. Unorganized and unclear job roles. 80% of the work is done by 20% of the people. Succeeding in spite of some poor leaders.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to people in their respective areas of expertise. Don't just have top down management but get everyone involved and have clear job descriptions and expectations.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Rue La La full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Passionate and creative people, Rue La La has some truly great people and I miss many of my former coworkers, great office and good location, you can learn a lot here, Rue La La has a great reputation and working here will help your career

Cons – entrenched politics, glacially slow when it comes to adopting new technology and improving their technical platform, revolving door for CIO/CTO,

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Rue La La full-time for more than a year

Pros – Nice company culture, small and supportive teams; sales offers great earning potentials and
Senior management does not "micro" manage.

Cons – Then"original" Rue management team is stale! They are made up of 4-5 senior executive
Who report to Ben and unfortunately are the reason the company is "stuck" they can't approve any new ideas , they hire new folks but then don't trust them --- it's crazy --- nothing ever gets done!! Ben --Clear out the cobwebs : S, M, S, C,E to name just a few!!!!

Advice to Senior Management – Ben-- clean out the cobwebs! The top people you surround yourself with to be successful are the
Very folks that are holding RLL back! Too much great talent out there ! Time to clean house and you need to start with your management team ---. Worst in the business

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Rue La La full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great people, young energetic smart people galore, and managers with a lot of personality.
Big initiative to retool the core technology
Process is mostly Agile (whatever that means).
Management is big on the vision.
Work hard & play hard

Cons – Turn over is a problem in some department..
Management is often chasing the next shinny thing.
Parts of management turn over so continuity and knowledge can be difficult..
Promotion and training is not what it should be.
Back-end tools are clunky and old.

Advice to Senior Management – Train your folks, improve the day-to-day tools, and promote from within more.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Rue La La full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Boston based company, creative working environment

Cons – No growth, balance is rare, no development roadmap

Advice to Senior Management – Clean house Ben and ask people why they leave!!!!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Rue La La full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – competitive benefits package, onsite gym, summer Fridays, brand recognition

Cons – Incredibly bureaucratic for a company this size, little to no promotion within, too many "cooks in the kitchen"

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your employees, provide an atmosphere of growth

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Rue La La full-time for more than a year

Pros – - Office in Fort Point (growing "Innovation District")
- Associate Sample Sales (when you're not getting shoved out of the way)
- Working for a recognized brand
- Some fun people to work side-by-side with (with a "we're all in this together" attitude)

Cons – - Technology, technology, technology! We keep hearing "we know and we're working on it), but have never been provided a timeline, a plan, or have seen any results. When tools are "enhanced", project managers don't include appropriate teams and tools end up not working appropriately.
- Senior leadership, they're pompous and don't seem to care about their team, just being spiteful to the other leaders they don't like.
- Negative culture, low morale
- No support, from leadership, IT, across departments
- No communication

Advice to Senior Management – Focus a little more on technology, infrastructure and communication. What could be an exciting environment is plagued by broken systems, angry associates and pompous leadership. Stop hiring a new VP or president when you want something fixed. This is a business, not magic-land. Giving yet another person $250K won't fix your company, most would argue it makes it worse. Communicate with your teams and create a collaborative culture with tools that we need.

There's SO much potential with this brand, but without some serious changes, our successes won't last too much longer as we won't be able to stay competitive and will ultimately "lose the flash sale race."

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend