Circle K reviews

3.2

44% would recommend to a friend

(5,664 total reviews)
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47% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Circle K has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 5,664 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Circle K employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews
3.0
Nov 14, 2013

Unhappy

Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work schedule, decent pay, all store managers are really down to earth.

Cons

Upper management is constantly changing, in the end your only a corporate number. When someone new comes in they always want to clean house and make several changes.

1.0
Oct 18, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

The company doesn't perform drug tests, so if you're a habitual drug user, you have a future at Circle K.

Cons

Recently, management at Circle K's Tucson headquarters changed. At the same time, a competing store chain, QuikTrip, entered town, and they're devouring Circle K whole. As a result, the new company motto of Circle K is "Be like Quiktrip, but don't spend any money doing it." They want their thirty-year old stores to look as nice as QuikTrip's, without renovating them or replacing any of their antique equipment. They want their employees to be like QuikTrip's employees while only paying them minimum wage. The management is overbearing, micromanaging, and eager to fire. Assistant Managers are expected to be available and on call 24 hours a day, but they can't get overtime, so an Assistant might get called on an hour's notice to come work a graveyard shift, and would have their hours cut the next time they worked so they don't recieve any extra compensation for the disruption to their lives. What makes this all the more frustrating is that prior to the management change, Circle K was actually a decent place to work for. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but every problem I just described was created by the new management. These days, if you're in Tucson and want a job, you would serve yourself better going to work for one of Circle K's competitors.

1.0
Mar 18, 2013

work hard, management will get a bonus. not you.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There were a few pros when this was still Holland Oil, but it sold to Circle K back in 2007. Unfortunately, Circle K didn't take the opportunity to get rid of the supervisors (Pokorny) when they had the chance and now these people are still there, and the job is worse.

Cons

The pay is a slave wage....raises are about 15 cents a year. and there's a salary cap for anyone who isn't management. Speaking of management, they get really nice bonuses on the backs of their employees, who get nothing when the store looks great and the numbers are good.

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