Belk reviews

3.1

41% would recommend to a friend

(3,872 total reviews)

Don Hendricks

45% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Belk has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,872 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Belk 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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4K reviews
1.0
Jan 10, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The 20% discount and knowing when to expect sells.

Cons

The pay and the commission. Commission is horrible at any retail store especially this one!

3.0
Dec 18, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I worked at Belk in the Women's Department and later the China/Bridal Department. Eventually I moved over to the cosmetics area and stayed there for the remainder of my time with the company. I will say that Belk generally pays well as far as the pay rate of the area in which they operate. They work with school schedules and I've even seen them allow for longer lunches to those who have responsibilities outside of work that they need to attend to (A woman I worked with used to have two-hour lunches in order to cross town to pick up her young children from school and make them lunch.) I loved working in the cosmetics area at Belk. The cosmetics employee's get more respect than other employee's. Good if you work in cosmetics, bad otherwise. I worked on both sides and can see why. Cosmetics employees have more personal interest in their products and sales, but they also get commission.

Cons

The throng of managers one has to deal with. You've got the store manager, your department manager, and then whoever is manager-on-duty each day to deal with...and then there are visual managers and security managers, all of which perform manager-on-duty responsibilities at times...so it is difficult dealing with so many, often conflicting, voices.

3.0
Oct 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The best reasons to work at Belk are the people I work with. I love my co-workers, well at least most of them. Many of them help each other out and engage in conversation and become friends. They often make my day when everything is going wrong.

Cons

Some of the downsides of working at Belk are or in fact is the senior management. I believ that there is some discrimination in the level of trust, help, preference and raises that are given to employees. I feel that the management is not understanding of student workers such as myself as they don't provide enough time off for me to study and research for my university classes.

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