Trader Joe's reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(10,580 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 10,580 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
Feb 4, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

If your manager likes you, you get to work. If your captain does not, you are written off the schedule. Personal rectal/oral application with lots of tongue to keep your job and hours. Benifitts, or we had them until the company cut them, cut out all the good things we had, like good health care coverage, tasting programs, store parties, overtime, and more. We used to have nice things.

Cons

The place is so felching worried about the SPPH that they kill their employees. Do more with less, constantly. We hit a sales day with a $400 spph. The store was a wreck, the employees frazzled, backs injured, etc In short, the company is too incredibly greedy and does NOT care about the employee or the employee safety anymore. They have been going after senior staff lately in an effort to reduce payroll. Ger rid of the old timers, and hire new kids you can abuse for less.

2.0
May 14, 2014

Downhill Fast!!

Recommend
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Pros

Pay is decent if you have been working there for more than 5 years. But once you reach the cap there is nowhere else to go. Some of the employees are really cool nice people.

Cons

Where to start??? New managment structure is pointless and harms productivity. Health benefits are gone. They will work you tirelessly while adding more and more responsibility and workload. If you have been working there for a long time (8 years for me) they expect a higher level of commitment and make you do more work than others. Instead of handling issues themselves mates and captains tell a part time person to do it cause they "have to stay in the office." Overall disgusted with corporitization of the company and the direction that it is heading.

3.0
Apr 29, 2014

Got to the party too late

Recommend
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Pros

Good place to start out a retail management career.

Cons

Recent company restructures have gutted what was once a very fruitful pursuit.

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