PetSmart reviews

3.1

37% would recommend to a friend

(10,809 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 10,809 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
2.0
Apr 28, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Fairly reasonable time off accommodations, work with animals

Cons

Low pay that truly isn’t worth the stress. Corporate expects each store to operate on a bare bones schedule where there is not enough staff allowed to be scheduled to properly do the job. There is barely enough hours for staff to be scheduled to help customers, let alone get all of the many, many cleaning assignments done that they expect. You spend your entire shift running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to do the work of 3 people. The animals are not cared for nearly as well as they used to be years ago because employees aren’t given adequate time to do so. Corners get cut during cage cleans because of lack of staff/time constraints and opening and closing tasks have to be rushed for the same reason. This means animals aren’t looked over or observed the way they should be and medical concerns are much more likely to be missed. Time that is supposed to be allotted for cage cleans ends up spent on customer service because of no other staff to help the customers. Yet, it is still expected to magically get done on time. Unfortunately, PetSmart has become cheap on labor and they don’t care if staff and animals suffer for it.

3.0
Feb 9, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Everyone at first really cared for each other and I liked pretty much everyone I worked with. Management was friendly and caring, my co-workers were supportive and they really took mental health and the safety of the workers into account. It was easily my favorite job so far when I worked there because of the atmosphere they made. tl;dr: co-workers make the job fun and bearable

Cons

Suddenly hours were slashed and we were told they would get better but then they never did. Management started to leave for other stores and the pressure on the remaining staff increased. New management was brought in and disrupted things even more. Everyone was struggling to make ends meet and the quality of the stores just went downhill. Eventually, multiple people quit. The care for animals wasn't horrible when I started but management never fixed issues if you pointed them out even if you had experience owning these animals as the treatment of staff went down so did the care. The most consistent were the customers who were either really nice or incredibly mean or creepy. Tl;dr: Management makes or breaks this job, customers will always be a problem since they got what they wanted most of the time.

4.0
Nov 5, 2022

Fired for bogus lies!!!

Recommend
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Pros

Amazing company overall. I loved working for them.

Cons

A group of undesirable employees got upset because I began enforcing the rules so they reported me to the care line. Multiple employees called, said horrible lies, signed statements, and got me fired. I was fired without even so much as a thank you. I HAD ALL THE PROOF SHOWING I WAS INNOCENT! HR told me “that won’t be necessary!” What a let down!! After all of the devotion and years I gave to that company, they throw me away without even giving me the opportunity to prove my innocence.

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