Currys reviews

4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(5,415 total reviews)
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Alex Baldock

81% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Currys has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 5,415 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Currys 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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3.0
Mar 17, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

- Easy to get pay rises (You start on £6.35 and can go up to £7.74 in less than a year). - Some locations you get an extra 50p an hour for location allowance. - Easy to progress and become team leader / management. - Great perks (Up to 20% off Apple, 10% in store, some tablets go down to £1 for employees only) - Great training - Incredibly fun over Christmas and potential huge bonus' (up to £1000 extra on your pay for a month).

Cons

- Heavily targeted, at the end of the day you're just a number. - Management team can be way too pushy and get you to do much more than you actually can do. - Old style of software (Still use Windows XP to process sales) - If you miss targets you can be put on capability. - Profit is so low so you're always pressured to deliver more. - Company targets are way too high for certain times of year.

2.0
Mar 17, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

East to hit target in big stores Discounts on staff purchases Birthday holiday

Cons

Targets not divided up amongst region properly. Makes it easy for big branches to hit, but impossible for smaller stores to hit target. No consistency (still) throughout stores when it comes to customer service, sales processes, everything really! Too much time wasted in doing pointless tasks, especially for managers, takes away time that could be spent making sales. Very high pressure to sell insurance policies. Told by regional managers to do anything it takes to get a sale, even if it's not by the book. A lot of dodgy goings in in the company will get swept under the carpet if made by people who are friendly with RGMs. Feels like big bosses don't want to pay out bonuses (why even offer them if this is the case?) Too big a gap between good stores and bad stores Company isn't the same place it was when I first joined 5 years ago, bring back the old ways and you'll have happier staff and better sales reports. Expected to bein group whatsapp 24/7, even if off on holiday to stay up to date with goings on in store, even if only part time staff. Impossible to switch off from job. Not enough SOH to properly rota enough staff. Too many times smaller stores are ran in one member of staff ALL day (illegal?!) Break policy isn't implemented at all ,expected to work 10 hour shift without any breaks.

3.0
Mar 2, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

All about teamwork, good training, above average salary, plenty of scope for career progression. Overall having a good experience working for them.

Cons

Sometimes long working hours, customers can be quite demanding, if it is quiet it can make for a long day.

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