Publix reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(21,110 total reviews)
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Kevin Murphy

61% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Publix has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 21,110 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Publix 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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21K reviews
4.0
Dec 6, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing company with overall great treatment of employees. Lots of potential for promotion from within.

Cons

Most locations have one pharmacist covering twelve hour shift. Not able to leave for meal break and restrooms are generally at opposite end of store. Support staffing based on Rx volume, so if you have a slow Rx department, there is zero support staff.

3.0
Oct 27, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They provide free meals for each shift. Plenty of available positions and opportunities to move around. Raises are every 6 months until you cap out in your role. Employee credit union. Paid weekly

Cons

NO PERSONAL LIFE. Recruiter said "rotating schedule, 4 days on, 3 off, etc. It turned out to be more like working whenever demand is high, random off days based on OT. They provide schedules a month in advance, but sometimes it is subject to change. Prepare to work 3 out of 4 weekends. It makes it very difficult to sustain a healthy personal life outside of work.

1.0
Oct 1, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay, decent benefits that's all

Cons

If you're not management & you're not sucking up or sleeping with your managers you are nothing no matter how hard you work. You get blamed for everyone else's failures. You get to stay late & fix their mistakes. If your part time they can give you 2 days while giving others 60 hours but claim they don't have the hours to give. If you don't/can't change your schedule last minute for them, even if you work another job, you better be ready to deal with retaliation. They will stop at NOTHING to show you they will always have the upper hand including falsifying information. Saying you're sending threatening texts yet unable to provide those texts even though you have every text saved in your phone. They wont even look at those texts. Team leads will do whatever to move up even though they go around calling their store manager a fat bleep and talk about their assistant manager being gay with an associate. Dress code only applies to certain people. If you're not white you don't have to abide by the dress code. Assistant store managers hit on female associates & they can't speak up because the DM & store manager will only make up lies to protect them. Yeah, really wonderful place to work for. If you go above them they only bring it back to the store so you have no anonymity. They can't be adults & schedule meetings so you can be prepared for it but instead pounce when you least expect it. Welcome to Publix!

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