You can bring your pets to work! - Anonymous employee Petco Employee Review

4.0
Sep 1, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

My co-workers are great. If you work at corporate, you can bring your pets to work. Most associates genuinely care about animals. My boss was wonderful though I feel he should have been promoted faster. Great internal reward system at corporate level. Great prices on pet supplies!

Cons

I feel like the associates and GMs at store level weren't treated as well as they could have been. Upward mobility is really limited.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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