Publix reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(21,086 total reviews)
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Kevin Murphy

61% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Publix has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 21,086 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
3.0
Mar 20, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

-Salary is decent -Benefits is decent -Managers are usually nice

Cons

-As a programmer you will be dealing with the bureaucracy of implementing technology, you will NOT be programming -Programmers do NOT program they simply work with vendors -Technology is very outdated -The computer you will use is very outdated -Your computer is a desktop -The free lunch is free but the food is no bueno -Health insurance is not the greatest -Some weeks you will work a lot because something stops working and this happens a lot. For a lot of the systems that you will be the primary, your backup person will not be able to help you when something goes wrong because the backup will never get to work on this project. Their name will be on the project, but their hours will be on the project where they are primary -People who have worked there for a long time are rude and just overall very negative about everything -No onboarding and training -A lot of programmers there just work there because it's pretty much one of the few places to work in Lakeland, not because they love it. And that shows! -They ask you why it's so hard to hire and keep programmers, you tell them the honest truth and they don't implement any changes

2.0
Oct 17, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people who you work with do become family. I’ve met people here who will forever hold a place in my heart, they make the bad seem not that bad.

Cons

Not a great a place for innovation. Most managers have been here for 20+ years, in theory that’s good. However, if you hire only within and their children, you get stuck! They don’t take advice on change and it’s frustrating fighting with a person who’s never worked anywhere else in their lifetime. They have that old man stance on life which is: my father did it that in 1406, so that’s what we shall do too in 2019. That also buy their awards, so it’s not the greatest place to work except but a 50 year old caucasian man. By that i mean it’s not subtle racism they practice here, but than again it’s in Lakeland, so Florida.

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Please know, these are all concerns we take very seriously. We encourage you to take advantage of our open-door policy and discuss these issues with your area's Associate Relations Specialist so that Publix is able to address it effectively.
2.0
Jan 18, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent pay The best people are usually lower down, so we suffer together Work is easy

Cons

Management runs the place like a sweatshop Customers are allowed to harass employees and we can’t do anything about it No dissent or displeasure of any kind is allowed No opportunity for advancement Widespread favoritism Benefits are only available to full time employees

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