Toys "R" Us reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(5,633 total reviews)
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David A. Brandon

78% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Toys "R" Us has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,633 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Toys "R" Us 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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6K reviews
1.0
Nov 4, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

10% discount for employees. Used to be a lot more pros, but at this point that's about it. Maybe a pro could be that you get the first chance to see new products coming in the store, before official release date, you have the first opportunity to see good sales just by being there before the store opens, etc.

Cons

Staff turnover is at an all time high including Store level management. We've lost all our managers and assistant managers, they've hired some new management but those new folks have no clue how to run a toy store during Christmas rush time, no experience. My store currently has no manager, the new assistant manager started 2 weeks ago, and another assistant manager started a month ago. Most of the staff has left when we started losing management and then more management started leaving as we started losing staff. Customer satisfaction surverys are at an all time low at our store. We don't even have an HR person to hire folks as our HR manager quit shortly after the manager did. This whole situation started shortly after Walmart announced $11.50/hour or more minimum pay, and we lost several team members. New staff hires come in and corporate is unwilling to pay more than $8-$9/hour. Target now pays $11.50, heck even Burger King and Wendys are paying $11/hour in my town, yet corporate at ToysRUs is unwilling to pay more than $9. Very few people applying for the job, and the ones that are applying are very unproductive, uninterested in the job, just there to get a check and do nothing they aren't absolutely required to do. Without management or leadership the situation is even worse in this situation. Trucks are coming in and no one available to unload them, boxes all over the store left unopened. loading dock totally choked with backlog due to no staff.. Wish I could give them Zero stars. but 1 star is as low as I can go

4.0
Oct 12, 2016

Customer Care

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good work environment with a large campus and open spaces to relax in.

Cons

Management was incredibly opaque about job stability; employees were kept in the dark about a lot of changes in the department. We felt like we were isolated from the salaried employees and even more so once it was announced our department was being cut and outsourced.

1.0
Sep 14, 2016

Stay Away

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None - you will regret working here

Cons

Work load at Christmas time No family life during Christmas season Opening at 5pm on Thanksgiving day, your there at 3pm, can't have diner with family. Always changing what they want as a Company direction. Work 6 days, 60-75 a week, paid for 80 hour for 2 weeks in season Unrealistic metric goals.

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