Five Below reviews

3.1

41% would recommend to a friend

(2,689 total reviews)
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54% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Five Below has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,689 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
2.0
Jul 26, 2013

Sales Associate

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

20% employee discount, fun merchandise in the store, easy...very little responsibility (only had to work the register...did not have to answer phones or deal with deposits or counting the register)

Cons

Management doesn't care about employees, often didn't "have time" to take breaks, raises were mere pennies, manager was NEVER on the sales floor assisting associates with customers or complaints

2.0
Jul 10, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Schedule not too bad, pay was good, employees pretty good, cool products

Cons

Changing way to fast, total lack of training, but they are working on that. Upper level management is all about themselves, little help from corporate office. Owners need to take a step back and let the senior management do what they were hired to do. Bonus is a joke and rarely amounts to anything.

2.0
May 22, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Discount. That's really all I can say. I got a yoga mat for something like $4? And before I got fired I had the chance to stock up for college.

Cons

I worked here for four months and heard through the grapevine that we had been overhired. When I was let go, I was told it was because I "wasn't catching on." I was often the only associate working, usually closing, and I often had to work until 11:30 (not 10 as my schedule said) without actually being given a break to eat. A few times I was on call for opening and called when I was supposed to but no one picked up because no one was even at the store till I was scheduled to work (I actually went and showed up and was then told I was not needed). There were a few weeks when I was graduating high school that I had requested some days off, and for those days I was only scheduled for the exact times I had requested off... was supposed to work my own graduation. Schedules were put up on a really inconsistent basis.

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