Trader Joe's reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(10,584 total reviews)
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Bryan Palbaum

73% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Trader Joe's has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,584 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
3.0
Jan 4, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible hours 10% discount good food fast paced, which can be good opportunities to be a section leader/write orders (although this added responsibility will not always be acknowledged with a better raise)

Cons

--Predictable duties --Often poor management (no communication/too many control freak prima donnas/managers constantly being transferred) --Pretense to being open to communication --Cutting hours for crew members while giving massive raises to three tiers of management (we need to survive, too!). Money saved on payroll goes into managers' pockets. --Daily schedule that makes one feel like a robot --Very secretive company/lots of gossip, hurt feelings --Constantly changing the game rules/moving goal posts (i.e. once you start making over $14/hr they start nit-picking everything you do to keep from giving you a 50 cent raise, including lies). A union would not tolerate this. -- Difficult for bad performers to be fired. They will very rarely fire a manager unless it's for discrimination or harassment. Instead they get transferred to another store, perpetuating the problem. -- The customer is king/queen and can be as abusive as they want. Management will never help you. Often times blaming you for any problem.

3.0
Dec 26, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great pay for managers Great benefits Free food and wine weekly Great customers Great retirement plan 10% discount

Cons

Excessive politics. No training on how to write reviews, utterly useless. Supervisors promoted on hard work, horrible at managing.

3.0
Dec 13, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Small store = less product to worry about -Lots of food to eat -Some neat odd jobs I get to perform -Always something to do -Customers are generally easy to work with -Close feeling with crew

Cons

-Full-timers, in the sense that you have multiple, different personalities and management styles on any given day, or at any random time. Every day you have a different manager with a different style of leadership (if you can call it that with some full timers). It can get very annoying at times. Plus, the full timers you really enjoy working with, usually get transferred out at any time. -Pay, is reasonable, not the greatest. I have seen better from other stores like Wegmans, Harris Teeter, and Costco. -Schedules, unless you have been there for 5+ years, or you have some sort of "Seniority" over others, you will never have any sort of set schedule. You can work 3pm-12am one day, then turn around and work a 9am-2pm shift the next day. The next week, you will work all mornings (5am-1:30pm) and then work all midnights (3pm-12am) the following week. Bottom line, it is difficult to keep up a steady sleep cycle, or attempt to live some of your life without taking days off, but I guess this is just another day in the life of retail. -Stores have generally small floor plans i.e. Tiny backrooms and loading docks, if you have one. During holiday seasons, it gets downright busy and very crowded, not to mention the back-stock that is just stacking up in the back, making everything a chore to do in the back room.

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