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      Talbots

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      Talbots reviews

      3.3

      47% would recommend to a friend

      (1,629 total reviews)
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      Lizanne Kindler

      61% approve of CEO

      48% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Talbots has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,629 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Talbots 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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      2K reviews
      3.0
      Apr 22, 2012

      Interesting

      Assistant manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Excellent group of very dedicated employees in most cases family like attmosphere great discount competitive wages great heritage of company brand name

      Cons

      alot of political favorings like many companies, play a lot of favorites company in a very unstable time right now, lots of layoffs,shaky from corporate constant changes of schedule, hard to balance with personal life unclear directions coming down from top, very unrealistic for resources given constant change of expectations of jobs

      2.0
      Apr 20, 2012

      Excellent for the first years of my career, extremely challenging and disappointing for the last years.

      Store manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great in store team building and mutual understanding of the challenges of upper management. In store employees were very supportive of management and went above and beyond to help with the enormous work load. Everybody worked so hard, but the feedback became very negative rather than postitive and in general the employees are tired and feel undervalued (and they are).

      Cons

      The in store culture has changed tremendously because everyone is physically tired and there is very little positive feedback anymore. People are simply used as bodies to get work done. Store managers do not have a voice in their own business. This company was very fortunate to have so many talented business people in their stores, but they have taken away the passion and intuitive side of managing and turned employees into robots. The people that could not abandon their internal passion and drive are the ones that have left, little by little the remaining staff is basically average, boring and incapable of bringing anything exemplary to the table. Very sad!!

      3.0
      Apr 19, 2012

      Good retail environment

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Different retail environment from the mall. Some stores are only open til 7 so it makes it nice from the mall hours. Most customers very nice.

      Cons

      Some of loyal customers upset about new product. They have restructured the company recently which gives uncertainty about the future.

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