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by mpr3
4701 days ago
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It's interesting that in the same article they also mention they are hiring for new positions. I can't imagine how this feels for both departing employees, and the ones who remain. I don't know much about the situation, but I am interested in how flash sales staffing requirements differ so much from standard catalog-based eCommerce hiring needs. |
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-Flash sales rarely have any inventory, and usually low enough quantities that they just sell through 100% of their buy and close the sale -Inventory-based store models require significant planning months in advance to source the right amount of each product, color, size, etc. They also then have to deal with the extra (you can't just leave products with one size all over your site b/c people will be frustrated) -Typically flash models need more focus on buying/sourcing (ie finding the cool new products to sell) and store models need more focus on planning (ie figuring out how much/when to buy, then managing inventory).
I'm not sure what their EU team was focused on, but from Jason's comments, it sounds like there was a lot of redundancy in buying/sourcing, which would need less resources as they pivot to a store model.
In terms of their open positions, it seems like a a company growing as fast as they have would want to keep the door open for hiring any position they might need - their open positions look like a broad range of resume collectors...