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Advantage Solutions

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Advantage Solutions reviews

3.2

50% would recommend to a friend

(5,131 total reviews)
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52% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Advantage Solutions has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 5,131 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Advantage Solutions employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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5K reviews
4.0
Jan 2, 2012

Good if you know what you're doing

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Of all of the merchandising companies Advantage seems to be one of the better at giving their employees the freedom to do the job well. There is minimal oversight and as long as you are meeting the standards set for you they're fairly lenient. I never felt micromanaged.

Cons

Not a lot of training. When I started being unsuccessful I didn't know what questions to ask to get help. A lot of management is people you hardly see that only know you by numbers and statistics so if you're falling short it's difficult to know how to improve. Advancement is difficult. The employee job website doesn't give much information on what jobs are available & location is a huge factor in weather or not management positions are open to you.

2.0
Dec 30, 2011
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Pros

I have been with the company for 18monthes and while I was promoted to a Lead position quickly (I was food safety certified from a past employer) The people in the clubs are great to work with and it is a intersting changing job

Cons

the raise i was to recieve for promotion took 6 monthes to show up and than they tried to only give me half what was owed. I recieved retro pay but was only given .50/hr for the past 600hrs worked and even though i was given a dollar raise it took many calls to payroll from my CS and the DM was unable to do anything about it.. payroll dept screwed me out of probably $200. if the UPPER Managment would get their stuff together and properly follow their own rules it could be a great company to work for.

1.0
Dec 30, 2011
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Pros

My peers are wonderful, hard-working, dedicated people who have gone far above and beyond... We took a rough start up, and ran! We succeeded...

Cons

We succeeded despite, or maybe it's in spite of, very little training. Extremely long days. Outright lies, from corporate, to ESthat we have to take the heat for. No actual recruitment, but CS are responsible for the recruiters not recruiting. Insane, immediate action emails, sent in the middle of the night. Insane application pool, due to non recruiting, forcing us to hire inferior employees we can't manage or get rid of. Can't keep the few good ES we have because we can't give them any raise or incentive, unless it came out of our pocket. Yes, ES, your boss pays for what little incentive you do get. Unrealistic goal expectations for event execution. Hello, perfection isn't possible! No escalation when Sam's Club managers force your teams to work in unsafe conditions, or won't follow their end of the contract, at club level. Very little HR support. None on the critcal days we actually work. No ability to take an entire day off. Benefits are a joke. You want me to wear what!?! I don't think so! No way to keep event schedules stable, to be able to schedule ES fairly. Big coherences, just to tell us we can't ask questions, (Guess what Sam's corporate, questions were "planted", but you probably knew that). Open Door policy is a joke. We are flat out told not to talk to anyone above our direct supervisor, and not to give contact information to ES. I seriously could go on.... All this for a 30,000ish salary; I average 60 hours per week.

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