Costco Wholesale reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(18,712 total reviews)
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Ron Vachris

77% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Costco Wholesale has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 18,712 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Costco Wholesale 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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5.0
Feb 23, 2009
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Pros

Great pay for the field. Many different opportunities; good job security; great benefits The more hours you pujt into your work, the better your rate of pay is. The average starts at $11 and then as a clerk you top out at 19.75. Also around the time you top out, you will have accumulated enough hours to begin receiving a semi-annual bonus of 2400 each time. I feel that my job is fairly secure. I am not going to get laid off since I have seniority. They provide health insurance, which is nice these days. My co-pay is only $15.

Cons

Like any other company: too much politics......also Managers neglect to thoroughly train new hires sometimes

4.0
Feb 5, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits and great starting hourly pay. After 6 months of working at Costco you get health,dental,optical,401k, tuition reimbursement, and more. Pay raises are also done at a pretty good rate, I believe after 400 hours you get a pay raise.

Cons

Management is not the best trained but was at least friendly. You can be moved around to different locations within the store which can be a pro if you get bored easily but can also be a con if you don't like working with food or pushing carts in inclement weather.

3.0
Jan 16, 2009
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Pros

few more money than other retail store. Its great place to learn some tricks of the trade.

Cons

Dealing with bunch of cowboys in management. YOu have to listen and follow up the stupid light headed supervisors and managers. Be ready to get criticized and sarcastic behaviour from your lovely boss. If you see deeply costco is also same as other place where they only talk about equality but in reality costco management knows its best how to treat somebody badly and they do it very carefully and legally. ha ha ha . For me personelly 90 percent of mangement cowboys need some kind of training. god save costco.

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