Nightmare - Assistant Buyer JCPenney Employee Review

2.0
May 24, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A variety of job opportunities due to the sheer size of this company. The corporate office has a lot of nice conveniences, such as a massive cafeteria, doctors office on-site, Starbucks Cafe on-site, daycare on-site. You can wear jeans on Friday's and their PTO program is pretty good.

Cons

Nepotism and cronyism run rampant at the corporate office. Work-life balance is non-existent...especially if you work in their buying office. The company embarked on a very poorly planned re-organization starting in 2007, which has left their Internet business in shambles.

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Cons

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Pros

Decent hours, you get off earlier depending on the size of the truck coming in that day which can be a good and bad thing. You also get several hours before the store opens without customers. No late nights.

Cons

Too early for some, and even earlier mornings during high traffic times of the year like Christmas/Black Friday Sales days.

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