Trader Joe's reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(10,607 total reviews)
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Bryan Palbaum

72% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Trader Joe's has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,607 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Trader Joe's 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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11K reviews
1.0
Jul 24, 2015

Avoid this company

Recommend
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Pros

Customers are "fans" and tend to be very freindly and nice. Co workers are usually fun to work with, but keep in mind that many say they work there only because there's no drug testing policy.

Cons

Each store has a quota of people to dump from insurace per quarter. To do that they over-hire and manipulate hours. If it were a fair process it would be one thing. But most of the best employees and people who "make things happen" get hours cut to one day a week if the DayForce software targets them as being next to go off of insurance. Each store has a core group of employees who've baby-sat managers kids, sold them drugs, or are personal freinds. Those people consistently get all the shifts they want AND what hours they chose to work.. Everyone else is regarded as disposeable and managerment can care less about their value to the company.

2.0
Jul 17, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible scheduling, 5% 401k match and 10% employer donation to your retirement if over 30, good people, some opportunities for advancement

Cons

Popularity contest to advance, as with most retailers its understaffed to meet spph goals, rules enforcement is random and unfair, they chose to require 30 hrs a week to qualify for insurance after Obamacare

2.0
Jul 5, 2015

Avoid it if you can.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You get a discount, which isn't much. Pay is a little bit better than most big chain stores, but again that's not saying much. Most of my coworkers were cool.

Cons

Hours are all over the place. Work is super physical. Managers were very hot and cold with me. One day I was the star employee, and the next day I was being lectured about my "motivation". Time frames for breaks and punching in/out are SUPER strict. I learned that the hard way.

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