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      3.7

      66% would recommend to a friend

      (21,128 total reviews)
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      Kevin Murphy

      59% approve of CEO

      61% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Publix has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 21,128 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Publix 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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      21K reviews
      2.0
      Sep 28, 2011

      Don't be fooled by the "inspiring feel good" messages Publix tries to portray.

      Stock clerk
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good stock options and benefits (if you work there long enough.) Flexible hours with school if part-time employee. If you like helping people, the customers have learned to rely on your knowledge.

      Cons

      Horrible compensation and pay raises. Overworked and understaffed. Upper management doesn't listen to employees. You have to have a "guardian angel" if you want to move up fast. Everything is a waiting game, including raises and school reimbursement. They give you all the rules at the beginning orientation so that you will not sue them if something happens to you, but yet they ask you to break almost every single one of them in order to get the job down. You have no idea if your particular store is doing good or bad, only statistics mentioned is Publix as a whole. They find every excuse under the sun to not pay you for your work even with next to perfect evaluations (which are never on time.) Only half of Publix employees are actually helping to make a difference and end up forking out most of the work load.

      3.0
      Sep 20, 2011

      Some good, some bad

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      -Benefits even for part-timers, if you have enough hours -Advancement opportunity -Co-workers generally adhere to professional standards more than at other companies -Open-door policy for speaking with managers

      Cons

      -Corporate mentality common to retail: "You must be available to us for scheduling 24/7, even though we may only give you a few hours a week, and in return we will have no regard for your needs as a human being or for how our scheduling policies affect you." -Seemingly no written policy for advancing to full-time -Divergent policies among managers, or even the same manager on different day or depending on who is asking -Seniority counts for, apparently, nothing whatsoever

      2.0
      Dec 31, 2010

      Benefits are GREAT! But the way an associate gets evaluated every 6 months stinks.

      Fork lift operator
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The benefits! No threat of being laid off. The company is constantly building new stores. The company has no debt & has a huge cash reserve, no worries about company going bankrupt.

      Cons

      The 6 month evaluation process: Basically one starts with 30 points. If you score 25 pts or lower you will lose pay. You can be on time for 2 straight years and then be 10 minutes late one day & that will cost you 1 pt. Same thing with attendance, perfect attendance for years, miss one day, it will cost you 1 pt. Our fork lifts have impact sensors on them. If you hit something it will sound the horn off. You need to get a supervisor to reset it & that will cost you 1 pt. The really bad part about this sensor is that if you hit the brakes to hard, it will be set off also. Management just assumes you hit something, no leyway. If the sensor goes off, it will cost you a point. You can go years with out damaging any product and then 1 day while you are taking a pallet out of a rack, that is 20 feet high, 4 or 5 cases fall from the pallet. That will another point. This is just a few ways to lose points on your evaluation. There are MANY other ways & I'm not writing a book.

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