JCPenney reviews

3.3

52% would recommend to a friend

(13,525 total reviews)
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Marc Rosen

63% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

JCPenney has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 13,525 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The JCPenney 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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2.0
Sep 3, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The pay per skill is good until you top out. Most of my coworkers were good people. Flexable with time off.

Cons

They will not pay you for your testing scores on the pay per skill chart until you get your first review. This comes only one time a year so based on your hiring date you may wait a year for your actual pay level to take effect. The people who work there in production are all temps. The maintenance are lifers who have been there for an average of 30 years and have no experience in real maintenance. If you work hard you will be given every project and job in the building. Every step you take is recorded by the loss precention department. The only time your not on camera is in the restroom. Not that big of a deal but does get a little wierd. management are so scared of their jobs they will not take a stand on anything.

4.0
Sep 2, 2010

buyer

Recommend
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Pros

get to run a large business- looks good on resume "multi channel" buying for stores,.com, & catalogs generous vacation time and pays fairly well for retail industry

Cons

having so much private label- always a power struggle between buyers and designers/sourcing dept

1.0
Aug 27, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Hmm lunch. I loved the customers and that is about it. No I also loved my co-workers we all stuck together in that unorganized place.

Cons

Where do I begin. The staying there until everyone had everything back to what it started although the morning shift did nothing. The snakes!!! The fact that some managers over did their power!!!

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