Corporate Office very Stressful - Anonymous employee Trader Joe's Employee Review

3.0
Jul 24, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great crew of colleagues. Facility is nice. Benefits are good with excellent health insurance, life insurance and bonus available.

Cons

Management is non-communicative. Very sexist organization and very ageist. Central managers are so secretive as to be paranoid. Virtually no give and take with lower level employees. Bad long-term employees are tolerated, even though they are rudderless, create no added value and are abusive. Nepotism and connections with management are rampant. Love you or hate you type of environment. "Merit" aren't, you are backed into whatever statistic management wants for the overall company. Career paths are not mentored or encouraged. Totally different from working at the store level.

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Cons

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5.0
Jul 15, 2026
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Pros

This company really does care about its employees. There's a reason why people make a career out of their time here. It is the most fun job I've ever had. They hire amazing, hardworking people with great personalities. Management is always willing to help. Theres fun tastings of new products all the time. Customers are generally always in a good mood. The job is physically demanding, but I am in the best shape of my life lol. They schedule you to change what you're doing every hour, so the 8-hour day goes by fast.

Cons

They can definitely play favorites. The same people get the shifts that they want, and when you first start, you can get stuck closing for quite some time.

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