Trader Joe's reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(10,596 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 10,596 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
4.0
Jan 7, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Fun Friendly Liberal Loose Flex schedules Good benefits Nice people Casual dress code good management

Cons

Pay is low Customers can be awful Work is hard--many injuries--some folks leave firm with permanent disabilties Dead end unless you get into management--there are very few corporate jobs-----

2.0
Jan 6, 2013

BEWARE of Store Openings

Recommend
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Pros

The benefits at Trader Joe's are competitive.

Cons

What almost no one will tell you is, one of the ways Trader Joe's keep cost low is by not having a traditional approach to advertising. They use A TON of word of mouth to spread the news at Trader Joe's. This is great for consumers and terrible for all employees because no customers means no hours. This would be fine if management were upfront about this fact which they are not. It happens at every new Trader Joe's for the most part. With that said, my advice is to beware of working at a brand new store. There are hardly any hours to go around and they most definitely wont tell you that during training.

4.0
Jan 6, 2013

great for retail

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great environment, I worked in a few different stores, good benefits for part time work, fun co workers and bosses, ease of transfering to different stores.

Cons

gets repetitive and can be physically demanding, scheduling can be kind of scattered and crazy, reviews can get overgeneralized.

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