Macy's reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(31,064 total reviews)
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Tony Spring

61% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Macy's has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 31,064 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Macy'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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31K reviews
3.0
Nov 4, 2014

Training has been horrible thus far

Anonymous employee
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Pros

you can come in as scheduled and train and get paid for training

Cons

Ive been sitting in front of a computer for 3 days @ 5 hrs a day and no one has bothered to come in and assist or ask if I have questions. EVERYTHING you are supposed to know is via a computer program including how to use the register. I have to figure it out on my own and there is a ton of crap about pushing people to open charge accounts and just dumb stuff that is a waste of time in my opinion. Then you are thrown to the wolves to fend for yourself. And don't forget sales goals....ugh!

4.0
Jul 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Co-workers & Management - the majority of the people I worked with were amazing. I am still close to one of my managers today and I consider her a mentor. If you work hard your managers will notice. This will make your experience better. Employee Discount Growth - I worked very hard during my time at Macy's and within six months had already received two promotions, which ended me working in the cosmetics department.

Cons

The Macy's I worked at forced us to join a Union. Being a part-time employee getting paid a quarter above minimum wage, a Union was something I did not want to pour my money into. The customers; management at Macy's has given the customer way too much freedom for too long. Customers now know that if they treat an employee like dirt by complaining about something completely out of the stores control, they will be rewarded with a coupon or "Macy's Money" to help them remain loyal customers. This causes the employees to be treated like dirt on a consistent basis, and it is more prevalent during the holiday seasons.

2.0
Jun 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

They're part of a household name, and it doesn't seem to matter how mediocre their online presence is because they will continue to make money. They have a very generous sick time policy. Office culture is confused. The macys.com offices in other cities are as modern as the SF location, but the SF location is still very far behind other tech companies in the SF area. Generally the company has a good work/life balance, your experience will have more to do with your specific manager than the overall company.

Cons

Very few company observed holidays (6). Very high turn employee churn. Very poor training. Very poor understanding of technology in general. You can't really consider macys.com to be a dotcom. They're doing nothing but increasing revenue, and in 2013 the company was shattering the expected sales figures so they increased the company goals halfway through the year, the company did not meet these adjusted goals and while the stocks and stockholders benefited from the best year of sales macys.com has ever had, the company did not reward their employees with bonuses because technically we did not meet our (revised) sales goals. The company does not have a QA department that looks at every portion of updated content. An example of tech failure is the company's poor understanding of phone apps (macys.com does not create the mobile app in house). In the last 2 years the iphone app has never had more than 2 stars and never had more than 100 reviews because it is constantly renewed in the store removing all of the negative app reviews. The in house tools to update the website are painfully difficult and out of date.

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