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      Five Below

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      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

      Ratings by demographic groups

      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
      2.0
      May 22, 2013

      I don't even think my time here counted as a job.

      Sales associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Discount. That's really all I can say. I got a yoga mat for something like $4? And before I got fired I had the chance to stock up for college.

      Cons

      I worked here for four months and heard through the grapevine that we had been overhired. When I was let go, I was told it was because I "wasn't catching on." I was often the only associate working, usually closing, and I often had to work until 11:30 (not 10 as my schedule said) without actually being given a break to eat. A few times I was on call for opening and called when I was supposed to but no one picked up because no one was even at the store till I was scheduled to work (I actually went and showed up and was then told I was not needed). There were a few weeks when I was graduating high school that I had requested some days off, and for those days I was only scheduled for the exact times I had requested off... was supposed to work my own graduation. Schedules were put up on a really inconsistent basis.

      3.0
      May 1, 2013

      ehhhhhh

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      discount, new products, fun atmosphere, good health benefits

      Cons

      poorly manged, bad training, low pay, too much work load

      1.0
      Apr 23, 2013

      Thoroughly awful

      Sales associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Looking back, I honestly saw no Pros working for that company. With the exception of being an alternative to McDonald's as a first job, i was left with a bad taste in my mouth.

      Cons

      The supposed "competitive wages" are the state minimum wage. This may seem petty, but the music that played daily was the same playlist. There were sometimes multiple versions of the same song that you could hear multiple times throughout the day. I was (UN)fortunate enough to be nominated to help open 2 other stores in the state, and while they do offer $.55 a mile from my original store, it took 11 months for me to receive that money. I was an employee for a little under 2 years and by that point had worked at the store for longer than any of the current management. There was only one raise opportunity without promotion and that came with the ineffective performance reviews. With exemplary marks in every category except "E-mail Retrieval," the hardest worker remained at the minimum wage.

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