Trader Joe's reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(10,597 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 10,597 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 3, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Pay and benefits were alright.

Cons

There are no set protocols, procedures, rules, guidelines, anything. Everything is up to captain's discretion. When I worked here, multiple employees were written up or fired for completely false reasons. Any pushback just got you in trouble too. Horrible, horrible place to work.

2.0
Jun 11, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I worked in the north wales location for a period of 2 years. The retail pay is superior to most other places, the insurance is top notch compared to its competition. They do have a system that works for organizing the store. The raises when they restructered, are far superior to many retail jobs at least during the time I was there until recently. You get to taste food ahead of time.

Cons

You have to be careful witht the store you go to. Many store are filled with hyper-progressive folks who are very difficult to work with. The store I worked in North wales had a very political presence, which made it difficult for adults who understand the seperation between work and politics. If you do not get along with the crew they utilize nasty, harassing tactics to drive you out. In the two years I was working there, anyone who wasnt white and progressive was driven out rapidely. I saw everything from setting people up for failure, to people snitching to try and dry people down. Unfortunately it negatively changed my view of the company if they allow employees to be nasty to each other due to racial and political differences. I saw many fellow hispanics struggle there, and saw how much they promoted diversity and inclusivity on the outside, but treated hispanic and african american employees with so much disrespect for the simple reason that they had good solid work ethic instead endless whining and complaining about things. Its a shame, because I saw good people leave because a bunch of miserable people dont like losing control over prepackaged groceries. The mates tried to stop it on some level, but many mates were not professional in thier employee/ leadership capacity, with many cases of obvious favorship, the captain was very ineffecient and incapable for the amount of time spent in leadership. This was clearly a case of someone who just stayed long enough and brownnosed long enough. The company is also taking many steps backwards, like removing many benefits and pay structures as I was leaving. They are definitely losing thier kaizen and starting to work like just another corporate hellhole. I warn anyone who is not exactly like the people who work there, be careful and maybe go somewhere where you are not the first minority many of these people are meeting. If you are good at your job, you wi make many enemies here. Go elsewhere until a restructure or serious change is done. Thank you for your time in reading this review.

2.0
May 23, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Health insurance and 401k match are great. Many of my co-pays were $10 and insurance was accepted widely. Definitely the best benefits package in the grocery game. I believe the minimum hours worked to qualify for bennies are 30-ish hours a week.

Cons

No sick days and very little holidays provided. You accrue time off and will have to use that if you are sick and it accrues quite slowly. Pay per hour is pretty bad even though it's above industry average -- still puts you right at poverty line. You get a "raise" once or twice a year and it is normally just 50-75c and the company acts like they are saints for it. However, the management at my store looked for any excuse to not give it to you. They also looked for any excuse to fire employees that were connected to forming a union. Bad look. Also, I led the produce team and wrote the orders for inventory and got zero pay bump for it. You do not get financially rewarded if you lead teams but they will make you feel bad if you don't agree to...almost like they want you to do more work than you're paid for...hmmm.

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