Petco reviews

3.0

36% would recommend to a friend

(6,865 total reviews)
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Joel D. Anderson

33% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

Petco has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 6,865 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Petco 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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7K reviews
1.0
Jun 19, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Petco is a fun atmosphere to work in if you like animals and don't mind not getting paid very much. Although most of your time will be spent doing remidial tasks around the store, you do have the oppurtunity to interact with many different animals. Petco does offer a 20% discount to their employees, so this helps if you are a pet hobbyist.

Cons

Petco does not pay well or treat their employees well. Don't expect to be respected or treated like anything more than a grunt. Petco does not foster new ideas from employees. Petco also has a lot of mottos that are very untrue, i.e. "Animals come first". If you are in management, don't expect any help or direction from upper or middle management, their job is to tear you down no matter how good your store looks. They also provide very poor feedback, many times leaving you without knowing what you are supposed to do.

2.0
Jun 15, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The best part is Getting to play with all the animals and the employee discount. If your manager trains you correctly you learn a lot about the animals. I unfortunately had to learn from trial and error and hounding down my managers with questions.

Cons

Horrible management, they were very immature and many should not have been promoted. At one time there were 5 team leads and 3 associates, this lead to a lot of head butting. The GM had favorites wich lead to poor issue resolving because she did not want to offend anyone. They are CHEAP and will rip you off. I worked a 12 hour shift that ended at 3am, but because I did not work that day I did not recieve overtime because the clock resets at midnight. They would not compensate me!

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