Five Below reviews

3.1

41% would recommend to a friend

(2,682 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 2,682 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
May 10, 2013

Money isn't everything!

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Pros

I was a GM for five below which came with decent pay, bonuses and benefits. That's it! DMs are all about money!

Cons

Where do I start. As a GM expect to work 60+ hours a weeks. DM decides how much payroll you get. In the district I was in all stores pretty much got the same amount of hours. My store did more than twice the sales of other stores in the district, with the same payroll. When I questioned this I was told, your salary do what you need to do to make it work. DM was not helpful at all and was on vacation all the time. I met David and Tom and they seem like very nice people but when the company went public everything changed.

3.0
May 1, 2013

ehhhhhh

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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

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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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