Carter's reviews

3.4

52% would recommend to a friend

(2,721 total reviews)

Sharon Price John

100% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Carter's has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,721 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Carter'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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3K reviews
1.0
Mar 3, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Better location...Better office...However extremely negative work environment..

Cons

1-inexperienced management with unexpected goals .2-One person covers everything with no back up. 3-Unhealthy long work hours sometimes days without sleeping 4- No questions will be asked policy 5-No Segregation Of Duties 6-No training or enough experienced personnel to review your work 7-Unrealistic goals and time management 8-Very poor HR Management and hotline to take complaints 9-Complaints are resolved by retaliation or threaten your job with your performance reviews 10-Since you're the only person does everything, it is extremely open to fraud and strong mistakes and weaknesses (If you don't know the solve the problem, you can't ask anybody's help without authorization. If you ask authorization, it affects to your performance review. 11-Multiple people have complaints and heart attacks due to stress and these unrealistic goals. HR and Auditing Department doesn't look at any issue objectively as long as they save pennies. If you will work for that company be sure to have a lawyer to protect you....12-Extremely micro managed company with foreign leadership styles without asking and questioning the authority)13-No work/life balance since not enough employee 14-(12-15 hours) work without asking any question and even not having a lunch or break 15- No back up If you're sick .. It's not very efficient and honest company to work right now...It'e extremely open to big mistakes and fraud since one person does everything with no question and no help policy with inexperienced new managers...

4.0
Feb 24, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-The people. Corporate, Peers, associates and customers. -Flexible with schedules and requests off -Tools provided to advance training -Celebration of outstanding employees -Customer relationships!

Cons

-Lots of movement, training and marketing changes with minimal extra payroll if any given. -Visual hiccups in corporate -Marketing issues (cut back your expenses spent in that field)! -Freight overload. It feels like the distribution is off for three days then packs hundreds of boxes to flow it out to stores. Trickle it into store 5 days a week. -Opportunities diminish once you are at Store Manager Level. -Your district manager will make your career flourish with the right opportunities (it all comes down if your DM is a "people driven" boss) -Salary. At least 15-20% less than other competitors yearly. -Bonus Incentives are very hard to achieve. 30% comp in the month of January? Really? -Health insurance price is crazy high! At least $450 per month. -Yearly raises are not even 1% raise, even when EE.

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