Overstock.com Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Salt Lake City residency requires some unique behaviors."

"Big company with small business feel."

What do you like about working at Overstock.com?

"I loved the culture of this company as well. The CEO was heavily involved in his company and would walk around and talk to the employees and cared what they had to say. The executive staff was the same and I loved that."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"They don't bite either!"

What don't you like about working at Overstock.com?

"Middle management was poorly chosen and my supervisor was poorly chosen and I believe those decisions should have been reviewed before they were put into place."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be careful in your reviews and your decisions."

"Was the best opportunity for me to grow and learn."

"Uses a lot of proprietary technologies that are fringe at best, very few mainstream technologies"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"good place to work if you really need the work, but there are better options out here"

What don't you like about working at Overstock.com?

"Politics, Politics, Politics. Volatile management. Too many proprietary technologies which have little or no value outside of the companyl"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop hiring Senior level people with a great depth and breadth of experience but only using a tiny percentage of thier abilities. Just hire juniors."

"If you like SLC, great place to work, develop career and be appreciated!"

What do you like about working at Overstock.com?

"People and opportunity"

"When I started at Overstock, it was amazing-benefits were excellent, helpfulness of the team leads etc. But, I have to say that in the last 3-4 months we have lost 50% of our team leads, have a complete change over of supervisors and managers and the turnover has gone from super low to over 50%. In the last 3 months of this year about half of our staff have either quit or been 'fired' for things that are actually part of our processes. At one time I would have recommended overstock to anyone but no longer. Most of my coworkers were job hunting (I had several of them tell me of places to job hunt that I would never have considered). I will NO longer work for overstock, use their services, purchase items from them and will never say anything good about them ever again. It's amazing-they went from being a terrific company to work for to a company I can no longer say anything good about. Good luck if you go to work for them."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't work for this company."

What don't you like about working at Overstock.com?

"The people were always extremely rude and unwilling to communicate on a professional level.Management was unreasonable and did nothing to stop derogatory remarks and situations in the work place.Many employees were very unprofessional in all situations.It was like being in junior high all over again. Salary was very very low for my position when others with less experience and less work made more."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop picking favorites! Learn to listen to all employees. Be more understanding and help relieve pressure from the employees that are working."

"Worst company I ever worked. I don't recommend anybody to work there if they are having same big issues within IT."

"High stress due to leadership's disorganization and lack of vision."

What do you like about working at Overstock.com?

"Flexible hours. Lax dress code. Decent salary. Nice office view."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The interviews are pretty easy for a tester. Know SQL, Unix, and testing basics."

What don't you like about working at Overstock.com?

"Disorganization. Lack of leadership. Lack of structure. Lack of professionalism."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The IT department is too big at this point to be self-organizing. Some structure would create less stress and more productivity."

"Been going downhill in the IT department for the last year with new senior management."

"I have worked for Overstock for over 2 years. At first it was great, but then there was some restructuring on the executive level. The result was a huge increase in the amount of micro-management that takes place. Nearly three times a week, the executives review the new content to be deployed hours before the end of the day when they are due. Because they feel the need to be involved in every single change this leads to changes that must be made last minute."

"The people you will work with at Overstock.com can't be beat. Everyone is willing to help everyone around them grow and learn. The only downside is that most of the executive leadership wants to have their own view reflected, and while their input is valuable, it slows the process down so work has to be rushed and not done as well as it could be."

"Poor senior management. Ruled by fear."

"A great job for someone looking for entry-level work but not much space to move up."