Five Below reviews

3.1

41% would recommend to a friend

(2,685 total reviews)
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54% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Five Below has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,685 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
Dec 8, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I literally can't think of anything positive to say here. The only possible pro that I can the merchandise. There are a lot of good quality items for $5 or less that would cost more elsewhere.

Cons

Where do I begin..there is absolutely no work life balance. Store managers are used and abused and expected to work 100 hours 7 days a week. Upper management has little to no regard for the fact that managers have families and lives outside of the work place. I was given 225 payroll hours and out of those hours at least 60 of them were to be used to process freight off hours and another 145 hours were used by myself and the rest of my management team leaving only 20 hours to be split amongst the remaining 20 cashiers on my staff. The company wastes payroll by having visual resets every week so there is never enough time to focus on the customer or any other aspects of the business. When you are unable to meet these ridiculous and highly unrealistic demands you are berated by upper management. I lodged a complaint with HR about the unethical treatment of store managers and received no correspondence back. It took me having to call the VP of the company before anyone gave me a courtesy call back about my concerns.

2.0
Nov 19, 2014

First Job

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Easy work and reasonable pay.

Cons

No progression and salaries do not seem promising.

1.0
Nov 16, 2014

beware of the management!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Chance of employment to be dragged through the mud.

Cons

I'm my perspective it's a waste of time. Your scheduled to work a 3-4 hr shift and considering gas and how far you drive your wasting more gas then you are getting at $7.25 an hr. They "promote within" is a joke, when I was hired with another person there was two people who have been with the company for over 3 years that are very hard working and the employee I started with became a key hold after only a moth of being there.The location I worked for the manager was a racist, I watched her talk to applicants when they would walk in, she instantly turned anyone who wasn't white away and told them "I'll review your application and give you a call" but as soon a white person walked in she have them an interview in the spot! I witnessed first hand during seasonal, a black employee clocked out for lunch and was heading to the back to sit in the lunch area and was told he couldn't go into the back because he wasn't in the clock and he said "but the microwave is back there I need to warm up my food" and she said "okay we'll after you have to go outside" mean while other employees have eaten in the back. The main managers would gossip with other employees below them telling them about private employee business and discipline their employees at the register in front of customers instead of taking the situation in closed doors. this company is a joke and I wouldn't recommend this company to anyone, considering the courtesy that's been bestowed upon me and the district managers and Hr. Haven't done anything about it! DONT WORK FOR THIS COMPANY!

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