Arranging Chairs on the Titanic - Anonymous employee J. Crew Employee Review

Do you like being underpaid, undervalued and underappreciated? Because J.Crew does all three best. Strange organizational structure where certain departments have higher rank than other departments for the same title. Petty cliques and archaic ways of doing things make it difficult to get any work done or have a career. They ignore ideas or suggestions and often will discourage any input and pull rank to silent associates. Business is bad and everyone is trying to protect themselves. Despite some operational improvements; the company is spending money on pet projects while reducing quality. A reflection of the poor business is that they got rid of the "60s list" discounts and scaled back PTO for all associates. There seems to be a new C-Suite exec every week with no real direction. The design trajectory is off and the merchandising focus is gone. J.Crew made a decision to go down-market and reduce quality; all of us watch the effect everyday as customers are angry about it.