If you have no life outside of work, and love retail, go for it! - Assistant Manager PetSmart Employee Review

2.0
Dec 3, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The animals are great, if you don't mind seeing them housed in minimal accommodations. The animal care is pretty good despite this. The store manager listened to my concerns, was professional and communicative but rarely in the store as they did inventory in other stores. The asst store mgr was present but lacked the skills necessary to lead others and was not very professional.

Cons

There wasn't enough to time alloted to care for the animals properly and service customers who had a lot of questions. Employee reliability and retention was not very good. The pay rate was not good considering the responsibility. There were few people who seemed to carry the weight of the store. Some of the others we lazy, not held accountable and lacked basic problem solving skills.

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5.0
Jul 13, 2026
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Pros

everyone communicates and willing to pass on knowledge

Cons

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1.0
Jul 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The staff care a lot and try their hardest but it leads to burn out and being taken advantage of by a company the does not care about YOU.

Cons

Poor management. No work life balance. Bad scheduling. Bad pay. No communication. Leads expected to work more than 10 hours a day during high volume periods, Be responsible for too many things. You run around like a chicken with it's head chopped off the whole time you're at work. Staff are snippy, and rude. A few are okay. Company has you working bare bones, and does not care. Pet parent's are weird, and I don't think have realistic expectations that the boarding facility is more like dropping your dog off at a dog shelter for a week while you go on vacation than a "fun time" for your dog. Dogs get fed, watered, pottied. If that is all you care about, then use the PetHotel. If you want your dog to have fun, and be out of a stressful environment (few dogs do well with constant barking and noise all day, plus being stuck in a cement run, thrown in with a bunch of other dogs who have never been properly socialized) just do in home boarding. I would never board my dog at a place like this.

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