Failing business - Anonymous employee Shoptiques Employee Review

I find it extremely disheartening that there are so many fake reviews on this page. The CEO is using the old emails of people who have left the company in order to write positive reviews and increase the company's rating. These positive reviews are especially important now because they are trying to hire a new sales team starting mid-January because the old sales team quit, got fired, or were told to join other teams such as customer service. That is also the Shoptiques strategy - If someone quits or the CEO spontaneously fires someone in an important position then she will simply pull members of the sales team to take over their job. The sales team is the most dispensable team at Shoptiques. It is a running joke that members of that team will rarely last over 3 months. My number one issue with Shoptiques is the deception. I know so many people who were promised end of year bonuses and never received them. Even when the CEO was confronted with this in writing she refused to pay the bonuses which is absolutely terrible. When I first started working at Shoptiques we had just hired a huge sales class and were moving quickly towards 50 employees. The business was growing and despite the long hours it really felt as if the company had a purpose and we were all moving towards something. However, this quickly changed. The CEO will lie in interviews and tell people that we still have millions of dollars from investors but the truth is that we do not. We did have investors at one point but investors need to see growth to continue giving money. Shoptiques has a broken business model that the CEO is unwilling to change despite the advice of those around her. Shoptiques will never be a company that goes public because they have no way of making money. They rely heavily on boutiques signing with them in order to make money because otherwise they would only be getting a tiny percentage of money from each product sold. That is why the main focus of their hiring is always the sales team. Shoptiques needs to constantly sign boutiques to get them to pay the start up fee in order to stay afloat. Even if this means signing the absolute worst boutiques around the world, the CEO does not care. She is constantly trying to compare Shoptiques to Farfetch or Net A Porter but that is almost laughable because there is no curation on Shoptiques. Yes there are some great boutiques on the site but these boutiques will slowly realize that they are not getting a lot of sales through us and then they will go offline. Shoptiques has over 5000 boutiques signed onto the platform but why is it that they have less than 2000 active boutiques that are actually selling?? Because they just needed the other 3000 to pay the start up fee and no one cares about the boutiques' success on the platform. This is not the fault of the sales team at all because they have a goal to meet in order to pay rent and survive. If they do not hit their goal every month then they will be fired so it is no wonder that they are selling gift shops in Hawaii, stores in the midwest that sell college apparel and Christmas ornaments, or even florists. There have been brilliant people employed at Shoptiques that are all gone because apparently they just aren't a good fit. Every positive review on this page states that everyone leaving a negative review just was not a good fit. Please just figure think about this and realize that is fake. Olga is just too arrogant to work with other people and take other people's advice, especially when she feels as if she is being attacked. There are so many things that I could keep writing about but the main point is that Shoptiques will drain the life out of you. You will work at least 10-12 hours everyday but probably more. At any given time you will be asked to stay late, work the weekend, or do tasks that are not related to your job in any way. There is absolutely no work life balance at Shoptiques and do not believe anyone when they say that you can leave when your work is finished. But here is the real deal - your work will never be finished.