Q&A With Michael Kors Employees

Strengths/weaknesses, past accomplishments, what's your work style, how do you handle conflict or stress, can you work without much guidance.

Brilliantly talented, intelligent, smart, cut-throat, aggressive, harsh, cold, inconsiderate, unforgiving.

He's awful, moody, indecisive, fickle, out of touch, awkward, flippant, and discouraging.

Living for a living, breathing legend, who is very involved in the business day to day despite the fact that he's a celebrity.

Health insurance, mobile carrier discounts, gym reimbursements, commuter benefits, 401K

Hostile, cold, harsh, divided, and severe.

Depends on the individual. I would say poor to very poor if you are a hard worker.

Subjectively. So if you don't get along with your boss, he/she won't promote you regardless of your performance. It's very unfair.

2 weeks vacation, 2 personal, 3 sick. You get an extra week at 5 years. You do have the week off between Xmas and New Year's which is nice, but MK is one of the only retail companies that does not have summer Fridays, which is extremely disappointing.

Annual review.

Smart people who are also likeable.

Be referred or come from a competitor.

Secure.

Extremely fast.

Extremely rarely. The annual merit based increase is 3%, which is criminal. It's not even a sufficient cost of living increase. Despicable and is reason enough to leave the company.

It's difficult and sometimes painful to go to work every day.

Depends on the individual.

Very challenged, 3 years in!

Talented, dynamic, intelligent people offer a rich learning environment.

How harsh the environment is and how your personal relationships with colleagues directly affect your work performance. For example, if you have a poor relationship with someone on another team you need to work with on a project, and she all but refuses to work with you, you are the one that suffers. You are the one who is blamed for circumstances that are out of her control.

Not good due to moody and fickle upper management. They instill fear as a motivator for employees rather than encouragement.

Little

Open, mostly cubicles. Offices are reserved for VPs and above and are very few. Multiple breakout rooms but it's hard to get them. Stark white walls and black floors, very sterile and cold environment.

50% discount on full price, 25% discount on sale, and quarterly employee sample sales

Very fluid based on conversations I've had. Promotions are random and mostly not given out. It's considered a privilege to work there in the first place, so they often scoff if you ask for a raise or promotion. Promotions are usually only given due to turnover. Career growth/development is not a priority for MK leadership.