Five Below reviews

3.1

41% would recommend to a friend

(2,684 total reviews)
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Winnie Park

54% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Five Below has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,684 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Five Below 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
Jul 19, 2013

Down right bad

Recommend
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Pros

Discount. You do ALOT of things that will look good on a resume.

Cons

As a salaried manager you're expected to work 45 hours. You end up working at least 55-60. Stores are constantly being destroyed by customers. DMs micro manage like crazy. Pay is a joke. The company relies on email capture rate which is embedded in your brain. Goals are unrealistic.

3.0
Jul 24, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This was a great experience for someone like me without job experience. I had nice managers who were kind and respectable. Great atmosphere and generally worked with nice people. They didn't treat us like we were beneath them and treated us as their equal. They also did not punish us severely when we made a mistake. You can wear jeans and you get a 20% discount. Good company, but could be great.

Cons

- Its basically an on-call job. They have you on call more than you actually work. I worked once a week on average, twice if I was lucky. I didn't work for two weeks in a row once. For the most part I'm on call which is frustrating especially since I'm a student trying to finish school. -They don't train very well. Found myself making a lot of mistakes because of lack of training. -If you work till close, be prepared. You may technically get off at 10, but you'll be working past that sometimes. -They don't respect you job availability. They pretty much schedule you wherever they want to.They put me down for days that I wrote I wasn't available and got upset when you told them you couldn't work. Not good for someone who is still in high school/college, has a second job or children to take care of. On top of that you have to call ahead or stop by to figure out what your schedule is every week. -You cannot void anything on your own at the register. You have to call the manager. Also, instead of scanning items and it coming up on the screen, some items are not in the system and you have to do an item description search, which Its annoying and it wastes a lot of time. You shouldn't have to describe an item to find it in the system, it should just be there when you scan it.

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