Q&A With Rent the Runway Employees

Much more diverse than other tech companies, especially in leadership.

Well, being a female focused company, it's clearly not as good as it *could* be, but compared to almost any tech company, it's extremely diverse.

The company is actually more diverse than other companies I have seen. There are many female executives versus predominantly male leadership at other companies. Also, the executive team is diverse comprising with 50% of the exec team as non white. Many senior leadership positions are also lead by a diverse team. I believe it is at least 30% non white, but what is most diverse about the company are the backgrounds and experiences of the employees. This leads to diverse ideas and solutions that are more inventive.

Good, but like all places, people love to complain about it. It's higher than comparable companies.

Very good. Very competitive.

Not too many, but then again, big launches or big sales can cause some weeks to need overtime. But, generally, 9-5.

There isn't a ton of overtime, mostly people leave right on at 6pm... but being an ecommerce company with a lot of physical requirements, "On Call" can be a bit stressful and require some pretty strenuous help. Aka, on Thanksgiving day, the team was all online (from home!) helping to work out issues.

Low

Easy schedule compared to most operations.

It's very young & inexperienced. Hard place for career growth

Leadership only want to hear answers they come up with themselves.

You meet with a lot of people, but only the most senior people matter. You will hear back within a week.

Understand the culture and why your skill set will add to the team before you come to the interview.

Really smart people with great social skills. It's an intensely complex business and we have a lot of really smart people, so to really succeed you have to know your stuff and be able to think through extremely complex issues.

Every quarter there is a company-wide survey, and every year there is a very 'positive' and engaging 360-review process.

Overwhelmed, but excited.

Oh, totally fine. Hours aren't crazy or anything for most people, most of the time.

Extremely. I've never had to focus so much in my life!

Really, really fun. Ski trip and Beach trip... all with open bar and nice buses and.. yeah, they do a great job with this.

How much challenging work there is to do! Such a complex business model, it really takes a smart person to know how to innovate.

Employees that have been there a long time tend to have PTSD about some of the startup years, but it's high among anyone who's started in the last couple years.

It's nice... been improving it pretty rapidly. But, still suffers from the 'open office' layout that literally every company has now and is terrible for developers.

Cheaper rentals! A full extra week off for Christmas! One day a year that we rent out a cool beach club in the Hamptons AND a day where we rent out a Ski lodge upstate.

A lot of tech debt, but moving in the right direction.

Really awesome leadership. I think some years in the past have been pretty mixed, but the company is growing well and there is a clear direction and everyone seems to be working towards the same goal.