Pros
- Meeting international people - Inside into the world of ”fast fashion” - Working with international customers - No need for dressing smart for the office, you can wear whatever you like - Dog friendly - It looks cool on Social Media to brag - Internship is very easy to get - It looks good on CV if you want to build a career in fashion - You can make connections with the customers with your work/approach. Connections are crucial in the business. - Learn how to work with investors/agents/influencers/grow sales/procedures, programs and business tools they use/how to set prices and margines
Cons
- No pay, not even traffic expenses or occasional lunch, 40% clothes discount! - Bullied into overtime so the managers don’t need to work as much and they take your work as their own! - Managers with no experince!! Key account and co-lab managers with a background just as a sales advisor from Zara, Are do kidding me? - Promised a position after the internship? Never gonna happen if you do not spend your evenings at the office, some people spend the night in the office and never leave work! - No creativity from the design team as everything is copy past and send from ’head of fashion’ who does not have fashion sense at all! - Stealing design from other brands, complete silhuettes and naming that inspiration? - All the managers are owners friends, he just gave a department to each friend. This is the main reason why the management is so bad, no skills at all! - Mobbing from the management and some co-workers only because you are an intern! - Nobody teaches you, everything you learn you have to do it by yourself! - Very stressful work environment! Very frustrating with your work-life balance in general! - Basic salary if you are not very smart to ask for it, 90-120 SEK per hour before taxes, you will earn more as housekeeping! - 50/60% of the company are interns because they do not want to pay or they will say that they do not have a budget for employment? No wonder if they are paying themselfes how much?? - Buying followers, creating alias/fake e-mails to communicate with influencers - Bad quality, cheap polyester and plastic - Not sustainable at all and do not care to be - A lot of people in the company are boyfriend-girlfriend and this is the main reason they are hired because connections are crucial even if your competence is 0 - Office/Kitchen is always very dirty and full of dust, all the plants are dry and dead! - Studio is always a mess, people are sitting in the dark with no windows! - Everything you do is ASAP because, is there an other way? Like maybe doing it on time so you do not put pressure on other people at the end to clean your sh*t after you messed everything up? - Fluctuation of people is enormous, employees are coming and leaving as we speak! - Always behind budget but acting like you are in the top of the game? How about not? - You can not act as a start-up after having 200+ people working there! - Na-kd will never be Zara, dream on!