Kohl's reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(20,278 total reviews)
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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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2.0
Oct 9, 2008

too much growth too quickly

Anonymous employee
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Pros

clean new stores to come to work in variety of products to bring in good consumer base locations across midwest, CA, FL, east coast, and growing

Cons

no bonus for ASM's, we earn the GM their bonus DM's force ASM's to work 70+ hrs per week opening stores, no personal life until 'after open', threatened with jobs often, unfortunately the 'after open' scenario never materializes most management is turned and burned within 18 months

1.0
Oct 8, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Most people will say the employee discount you receive on merchandise. My feeling was lack of management allowed for tasks that needed to be completed to get completed without the hassle of a manager over your shoulder bogging down your productivity.

Cons

If you think you are important, great, but don't expect praise or even recognition on tasks that you go out of you way to complete. And I am not talking about tasks you should do as taking pride in your store, I am talking about them making you stay for overtime to complete large tasks with fellow co-workers and not even getting a thank you after. Also because management is incoherent to what is going on, don't ask to be supported in making a decision on store policy or what is good in general, you will be left hung to dry because making that dollar is more important then your value as an employee.

1.0
Oct 5, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Kohl's is a nationally recognized company, but leadership at the local level seemed to be lacking. Benefit packages seem to be good.

Cons

Complete lack of training in specialty departments. Training for new employees at a new location was very poor to say the least. Training programs had practically no oversight and senior management really did not seem to care. It was just a "get out there and do it, we don't care how" attitude. Senior management called me at home frequently to criticize happenings while I was off duty.

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