PetSmart reviews

3.1

37% would recommend to a friend

(10,806 total reviews)
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Ken Hicks

23% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

PetSmart has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,806 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
Mar 20, 2023

For the love of animals

Recommend
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Pros

Advocate for animals in our care. Recruiting, training and developing career driven individuals with a passion for animals, educating the community on solutions for their pets and giving back to the community and rescue partners. Benefits program. Employee discount on proprietary brands. Ally program.

Cons

Work/life balance. Store labor hours provided for weekly workload. Upper management training is nonexistent. Pricing changes are rampant- poorly planned and executed by corporate offices.

1.0
May 26, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Cute animals, fun people to work with occasionally

Cons

Incredibly low wages that feel like a mockery considering how we are constantly treated by customers, management and corporate. The training is a joke. People are like a revolving door no one sticks around for long. During the pandemic we were told even if we are sick we are to work, they cut our hours and fired people but kept us open regular hours with a skeleton staff. Corporate doesn’t take care of any employees and it shows in every aspect of the company

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3.0
May 4, 2021

It's ok

Recommend
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Pros

It really depends on what your store is because I have heard mixed things. The leadership at my store was very great to work with. They always made sure that the animals were cared for properly. My leaders were really supportive, and let me do my job without any issues.

Cons

The company itself needs a whole rework from the top down. Corporate as a whole makes absolutely no sense to me. My store was one of the best performing ones in the district and we had three people working the store at any given time. There was always one cashier, one pet care, and one manager. Most of the times managers and cashiers overlapped, but pet care almost never did. Corporate never gave our store enough labor hours so pet care was always running around trying to do everything with no time to do it. The job is so so stressful and I wouldn't recommend it unless you're seriously looking for a career working with animals. Pet care is really a job you SHOULD have experience with, but PetSmart has such high turnover it's hard for them to retain the talented people since there's no growth besides becoming a manager that doesn't really care for the pets. There just really needs to be some reworking within corporate PetSmart.

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