PetSmart reviews

3.1

37% would recommend to a friend

(10,801 total reviews)
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Ken Hicks

24% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

PetSmart has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,801 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PetSmart employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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11K reviews
3.0
Aug 5, 2011
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Pros

PetSmart is definitely a company that embraces its employees on the corporate side. They conduct surveys every year to determine how things are running from the point of view of the employees. I've never heard of any other company doing that!

Cons

Prepare for monotony. It's not a matter of if you will get bored, it's a matter of when. 8 hours of standing in the same place day in and out doing nothing but preventing bloodshed. Safety is secondary in the Hotel. As long as a customer is willing to push money into the register, the dog is as good as gold no matter how many times they've bitten people. Pay is extremely low for an animal care job, especially considering the work involved. Imagine shepherding 15 dogs for near minimum wage. Awful. The people you depend on to manage you have never worked your position, so they have no idea who the dogs are or what they are doing, Training is SCANT. Confidence is low, so we're constantly losing staff which puts pressure on us to do the work of 2-3 people.

3.0
Aug 3, 2011

Not Boring

Anonymous employee
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Pros

You must like dogs. It isn't super fun but it isn't boring either.

Cons

Tedious, terrible when it gets slow.

3.0
Aug 2, 2011

It was a great work atmosphere

Anonymous employee
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Pros

PetSmart has a great atmosphere and culture. It is a vey charitable organization. Employees get to bring in their own pets every Friday.

Cons

It was frsutrating to advance within PetSmart due to low turnover. They were too afraid to let any senior employees go even though there were more qualified employees in line.

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