Five Below reviews

3.1

41% would recommend to a friend

(2,684 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 2,684 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
Feb 26, 2014

Embarrassed to have this company on my resume...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Fast paced environment, never bored, management and professionalism is severely in need of help.

Cons

Extremely reactive company, systems are manual and out of date with no OTB at the buyer level, afraid of change and improving processes, mantra is "this is the way we have always done it, so why change it, tried it before and it did not work", MM's micromanage and are threatened by talented buyers rather then letting them own their own business, there is no team feeling in the merchandising department, adversity and competition is actually almost encouraged causing discourse and an unhealthy working environment among buying teams. Very unprofessional, dishonest individuals that do not know how to treat or manage people, let alone run a business. For a company this young so many people shouldn't be leaving all the time...BIG red flag.

1.0
Feb 24, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Laid back and the job is easy

Cons

Upper end of management has been out of store way to long. Impossible amount of work given to the empolyess and in store managers. With barely enough hours to fill the schedule

1.0
Feb 23, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Seasonal hours, employee discount, flexible with scheduling, nice selection of products for me to familiarize myself and customers in.

Cons

No room for growth, not enough hours in payroll to get done projects from reflexis yet maintain high csat standards and email captures, key holders get paid dirt yet they are held to the same management standards and responsibilities, you can't have a career or real future with the company unless you're higher up, our warehouse ships out freight in extreme excess of what we need namely around inventory time so that they have less to count, I am always over 50% in email captures yet it's only the company that benefits from it. I receive no reward or extra hours for my emails, so I feel like the company is not rewarding hard working employees like they should.

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