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      Trader Joe's

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      Trader Joe's reviews

      4.1

      82% would recommend to a friend

      (10,575 total reviews)
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      Bryan Palbaum

      73% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

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      Trader Joe's has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,575 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Trader Joe's 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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      11K reviews
      1.0
      Nov 20, 2014

      Great people; ZERO incentive and opportunities; had to take another job.

      Crew member
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Employees were good people; no expectations (if you consider that a good thing; I don't). Smile, be cheery and a little weird and your set!

      Cons

      Trader Joe's is great at hiring just the right person that has no incentive to make more money or move up. As long as they smile and are cheery and have no drive, you are the perfect employee. There is absolutely zero opportunity. You can work your butt off and you will get paid (sometimes less) the same as people that take 10 breaks, go out in back to smoke constantly, chat with their co-workers all day and become buddies with the mates. Again, the people were great and nice, but they just don't have a work ethic and Trader Joe's doesn't care that they don't. This did not apply to everyone, but about 80% of the people.

      1.0
      Nov 2, 2014

      Apply at your own risk. Advertised benefits and pay to lure employees no longer exist.

      Section leader
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      10% Discount on already reasonable priced products.

      Cons

      Due to Obama Care the company is trying to boot as many people off the insurance as possible. This means that they overhire to get the job done while cutting hours to the minimum. Employees who've relied on the company for years to pay their bills are now scrambling to make ends meet. And you can't get a second part-time job because then you're dropped from scheduling. Our store has had almost 30% turnover in the past two years. Another pretty crappy thing they do is advertise the great benefits, hours, and working conditions that they had 3-8 years ago, but no longer exist. New hires are lured in with promised of promotion and great pay. Many have left better paying jobs to work for us, only to find out they were flat out lied to because part of the "New Paradigm" is no in-house promotions. If employees get organized they'd have a great shot at a lawsuit.

      1.0
      Jan 10, 2014

      Used to be a fantastic company to work for

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Better pay then most retail jobs Better than average customers

      Cons

      This used to be an amazing company to work for. Trader joes has always been a laid back company but that has drastically changed. The culture is terrible and management are robots now instead of out of the box thinkers They just recently took away part timers insurance and cut our 401k contributions. They purposely make sure that even tenured crew members do not get scheduled the hours they need to get benefits.

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