Tapestry

Global fashion brand group
Last updated:
February 6, 2026
Company details
HQ
HEADCOUNT
10000+
ORG TYPE
Startup
SECTOR
Retail & Consumer
About the company
Tapestry is a global house of fashion brands, best known as the parent company of Coach, kate spade new york, and Stuart Weitzman. The company runs both corporate teams (design, merchandising, marketing, finance, data, tech, HR) and large retail operations across stores and outlets. Tapestry’s early-career activity is split between corporate internships and store leadership internships, plus a design apprenticeship track for recent grads and early-career talent. Public filings describe a large global workforce with most colleagues in retail locations.
Locations and presence
Tapestry is headquartered in New York City (Hudson Yards) with corporate roles often tied to the NYC area and hybrid working patterns depending on team. The company operates globally through retail stores and regional offices, so early-career experiences vary a lot between corporate and store-based pathways.
Palpable Score
74.0
/ 100
Tapestry is a solid early-career option because the company runs repeatable internship and apprenticeship pipelines with clear dates, structured steps, and visible pay ranges for many early-career openings. The score is capped by outcomes evidence, since public proof of conversion, retention, and promotion timing for interns and apprentices is limited beyond reviews and programme announcements.
Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

16.0
/ 20
  • The company runs a 10-week Corporate Summer Internship Program and separate Store Leadership Internships across Coach and kate spade, which creates multiple “start here” routes.
  • Tapestry offers a 12-month Design Apprentice Program aimed at recent graduates or early-career applicants, which is rare in fashion outside pure design schools.
  • The company’s day-to-day job estate still leans experienced for many corporate roles, so entry-level access is strong in programmes but less consistent in standard hiring.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

15.5
/ 20
  • The company states that candidates should only be contacted for interviews or offers if they applied through the official careers site, which is a concrete anti-scam candidate protection step.
  • Tapestry makes the internship process unusually explicit in postings: an online application plus a required HireVue video, then final Teams interviews and offer timing windows.
  • The company relies on multi-stage screening for internships, and public candidate feedback includes mixed notes on speed and communication consistency, which limits top-end transparency scoring.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

14.5
/ 20
  • The company describes the Design Apprentice Program as including training and learning sessions, exposure to leaders, and a final project presented to design leaders across brands.
  • Tapestry’s store leadership internships are framed as learning alongside store leaders with exposure to store operations and leadership skills, which is a practical early-career learning signal in retail.
  • The company’s wider job descriptions do not consistently spell out mentoring cadence, onboarding plans, or progression checkpoints for juniors outside these flagship programmes.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

15.0
/ 20
  • The company publishes base pay ranges on many US early-career postings, including store leadership internships (for example $20/hour) and design apprentice roles (for example $26/hour).
  • Tapestry links early-career roles to defined benefits pages (corporate and store), which improves reward clarity beyond base pay.
  • The company does not make salary ranges universal across all geographies and all early-career roles, so pay transparency is strong in the US postings but uneven globally.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

13.0
/ 20
  • The company reports a stable large workforce in public filings, which supports baseline organisational stability for cohorts joining each year.
  • Tapestry has enough review volume on major platforms to show both positive intern experiences and recurring complaints about inconsistency across teams, which suggests outcomes vary by manager and function.
  • The company does not publish cohort metrics like intern-to-offer conversion, apprenticeship completion rates, or 12–24 month retention for early-career starters, which caps this pillar.

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