Trader Joe's reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(10,565 total reviews)
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Bryan Palbaum

73% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Trader Joe's has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,565 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
4.0
Mar 24, 2010

good part-time job

Anonymous employee
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Pros

upbeat environment, great customer base, good pay, great health-benefits, 2 pay-raise reviews a year, 10 percent employee discount, overall good company to work for

Cons

very slow advancement due to company practice of hiring due to time put in rather then capability, due to operations being open 22 hours shifts are usually late night and early morning.

4.0
Mar 16, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great products and value that you can be proud to be connected. Great health benefits - even for 3 day-a-week workers. You're allowed to actually have fun working there. Lots of TJ's customers are very attractive and often very enjoyable to talk with week after week. You're constantly being asked for help finding items or giving advice about products, and thereby constantly being thanked - some jobs you are really never thanked, only acknowledged. Many of the full-timers (management) are quality individuals and treat the part-timers (hourly workers) with great respect.

Cons

The physicality of the job can be wearing. Each store has many full-timers, at different management levels, and a few can be total asses - those usually don't last long or are moved out of the store. The full-timers also gossip amongst themselves about the hourly workers - often spreading misinformation that effects reviews and raises. Once, my reviewer had a completely wrong idea about who I was and my attitude about my job, based on a small off-hand comment from his co-worker. That reviewer was wrong for assuming so much about something so important without asking me about it beforehand. There are some long-time crewmembers that should have quit or been fired years ago because of their horrid work attitudes or plain anti-social behavior, but continue to keep their jobs because management seems to only fire someone if they steal (even the smallest of items).

4.0
Mar 10, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

People who work at Trader Joe's are really friendly and are motivated to work really hard. This helps the time go by pretty fast and makes you feel like you are a valuable employee.

Cons

When I worked there, you could potentially get a raise every six months (or was it every three?), well in any case, the job is what it is...not that great of pay unless you can work your way up to full time status.

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