Great culture, but not the most exciting work - Software Engineer The RealReal Employee Review

3.0
9 Mar 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Great company culture and people. The engineering organization has a lot of bright and talented people that are invested in raising the bar for new engineers.

Cons

Found it was difficult to change teams/positions to find the role I was most interested in once there, and it ended up being easier for me to just change jobs. Tech stack isn’t that innovative, and at least when I was there, there was a lot of tech debt that was just “ignored”. Much of the code base is a 10 year old RoR monolith.

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5.0
8 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Overall, the receiving team is very sweet and engaging. They try to help you when you need it or ask for it.

Cons

When you don't reach your goal, they do get on you/

2.0
13 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Pay and commission can be good, but the structure is unnecessarily convoluted and not as generous as it seems, and you will have no work/life balance if you want to actually make consistently high commission. If you have a true passion for luxury and fashion, you do get a lot of opportunities to handle and interact with special/rare items, and depending on store location you can meet a lot of interesting industry people and celebrities, especially during Fashion Weeks

Cons

Poor and unsupportive management with extremely unrealistic demands and expectations; you will get virtually no training, but are immediately expected to know how to do everything. The overall company culture is just unpleasant and very cliquey, and there's constant employee turnover. The online customer service system is terrible, so you will frequently have to handle customer issues that have nothing to do with you/your sales.

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