Five Below reviews

3.1

40% would recommend to a friend

(2,692 total reviews)
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51% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Five Below has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,692 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Five Below 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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3K reviews
3.0
Dec 11, 2014

Fun

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very active, fun products, schedule flexibility

Cons

Shortage on payroll to get jobs done properly

1.0
Dec 8, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I literally can't think of anything positive to say here. The only possible pro that I can the merchandise. There are a lot of good quality items for $5 or less that would cost more elsewhere.

Cons

Where do I begin..there is absolutely no work life balance. Store managers are used and abused and expected to work 100 hours 7 days a week. Upper management has little to no regard for the fact that managers have families and lives outside of the work place. I was given 225 payroll hours and out of those hours at least 60 of them were to be used to process freight off hours and another 145 hours were used by myself and the rest of my management team leaving only 20 hours to be split amongst the remaining 20 cashiers on my staff. The company wastes payroll by having visual resets every week so there is never enough time to focus on the customer or any other aspects of the business. When you are unable to meet these ridiculous and highly unrealistic demands you are berated by upper management. I lodged a complaint with HR about the unethical treatment of store managers and received no correspondence back. It took me having to call the VP of the company before anyone gave me a courtesy call back about my concerns.

2.0
Nov 19, 2014

First Job

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Easy work and reasonable pay.

Cons

No progression and salaries do not seem promising.

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