Kohl's reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(20,278 total reviews)
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Michael J. Bender

66% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Kohl's has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 20,278 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kohl's employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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3.0
Dec 28, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

If you are a person who does well with multi-tasking, this is the job for you. On any given day you may be on a register, merchandising, doing markdowns, helping customers, or keeping a department straight. A person will never get bored. The management seems to be aware of special circumstances in every day personal life and can make accomodations in scheduling to help those who have issues at home or for those that are students. Most of the associates develop a comraderie to help each other with the tremendous workload. There is also opportunity for those without a college education.

Cons

Having a job at Kohl's means that you have a job that will be very demanding. There is never enough time for training so each person has to be extremely self-motivated to learn all aspects of the job. The demands are so great that everyone is overstressed and overworked. This workload causes some tempers to flare and there is alot of blame-shifting when work is not completed. The pay is another downside. I have worked for Kohl's for nine years and did not get a significant pay raise until I became an area supervisor. Raises are not performance based which causes associates to be lax in their work habits

1.0
Dec 28, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay is not to shabby and some of your fellow employees are pretty nice to work with. The quality of the merchandise is pretty good. Loved to shop there and the discount wasn't bad either. I loved working with some of the people there. My fellow POS Specialists were fun to be around and were very helpful when I got the promotion to their team. The store was always clean and bright and you couldn't beat the sales. Most of the Floor Supervisors were great fun to work with, especially the Loss prevention guys. I would work with any of them again.

Cons

The hours suck. Upper Management are idiots who don't know how to run the store. If you are looking for a job that will give you back what you put into it then this is not the job. Take it from someone who worked there and was accused of actions that they didn't do and was forced to quit but who had bent over backwards to get the job done and was always available when they called because they needed someone to cover a shift. Working at Kohl's can be fun but don't let them fool you into thinking they are your friends. They are just waiting to stab you in the back after they draw their last drop of blood out of you.

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