Pretty Good Pay But Expect to Work Hard! - Level 6 In-N-Out Burger Employee Review

4.0
Aug 15, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The starting pay is pretty good and with an employer open from 10am-1am or even later there are many different shift available. The wide range of shift helped me with my college school schedule. My managers were pretty good to work with when in came to school. Every few months, if there were no injuries, we would receive safety day gifts in the form on in n out merchandise or gift cards. Also, there are store goals every year and if your store makes the goal, you can earn opportunities to go to places like Disneyland or Knotts for free.

Cons

Expect to work weekends and holidays (except for Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas). Every other holiday is a working holiday and sometimes getting those days off for family vacations or events can sometimes be hard (ex. Labor Day, Memorial Day, MLK Day.. etc). Sometimes if you have closing shift, you will get off anywhere form 2am-2:30am. Also if work is slow, they may ask you to clock out so hours aren't guaranteed. You get paid good but you definitely work hard for your money. Don't expect to be standing around, you have to hustle or you won't do well at this job. Also, if you're a guy, by default you end up doing most of the grunt work. In example, taking out the trash, peeling potatoes and cleaning the grills. Due to this, sometimes it is harder for guys to be promoted to different higher associate levels (more pay) because their opportunities for training on new positions/levels are at times less convenient when they're needed for those grunt tasks.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

In-N-Out Burger is largely a company that is exactly what they appear to be. Truly committed to superior product quality and incredible customer service. While there are always some low performers/bad eggs in any company, it is few and far between at INO. It is a company where performance is acknowledged and rewarded, and the company is phenomenally supportive and spends a lot of money to reward performance (trips around the world for hitting goals, etc. INO pays incredible wages and gives you ample opportunity to make more money and achieve trips and such by hitting your goals. Because they pay so well across the board, if you are a store manager you tend to have the pick of the best applicants, as you're not paying anything close to minimum wage.

Cons

Schedule can be a bit demanding at times if you're in Management, but you are handsomely compensated. If you get under a Manager or Divisional Manager who isn't fair or seems unreasonable, that can be a challenge to navigate. Fortunately, these people are few and far between, and HR is very fair and will go to bat for you if needed,

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