You can bring your pets to work! - Anonymous employee Petco Employee Review

4.0
Sep 1, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

My co-workers are great. If you work at corporate, you can bring your pets to work. Most associates genuinely care about animals. My boss was wonderful though I feel he should have been promoted faster. Great internal reward system at corporate level. Great prices on pet supplies!

Cons

I feel like the associates and GMs at store level weren't treated as well as they could have been. Upward mobility is really limited.

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Cons

- Sr. Directors and above are largely nepotism hires rather than merit-based promotions - Leadership team is toxic and disrespectful, and that tone trickles down to other senior leaders - Gender favoritism shows up repeatedly, with women being asked to pick up the work of men without additional pay. Or men being promoted over women due to favoritism and not merit. - Nearly every employee I worked with was disengaged and functioning out of fear of layoffs rather than job satisfaction (layoffs happen multiple times a year) - The company's declining position also makes it harder to land your next role, since a recent Petco title now reads as coming from a struggling brand

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