Goodwill reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(9,237 total reviews)

Catherine Meloy

50% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Goodwill has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 9,237 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Goodwill employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the ONG y Organizaciones sin fines de lucro industry (3.7 stars).

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9K reviews
1.0
Apr 6, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

It's a job..... You can pay some bills. You can have self esteem in yourself for trying to make a living.

Cons

The fake non profit should just make an announcement and say, "We've decided to head in a new direction. That direction, is For Profit". If that happened, this review wouldn't be necessary. VP and Director positions sit at cozy 6 figure salaries. Some directors even make $250,000 annually, not including their bonuses as well. Don't believe me? Then YouTube "Dateline's" special on Goodwill. The org pays the handicap employees below minimum wage, ranging grotesquely from 0.22 cents an hour and up. Imagine your blind daughter or son being timed to complete a task, then being told because they're not fast enough, subliminally that their not good enough, and their pay is going to be cut. Their motto is "transforming lives through the power of work". Despicable. They should all be ashamed of themselves. It's the silent owners who actually are in command. They look from their ivory white towers down below, they disregard their peons, then they laugh at their grand scale of deception and greed. Bottom-line, this org only cares about money. Absolutely Zero care for you, unless, your high enough in the game. If your coming here for a mission, I hate to tell you, its nothing more then a corporate, greedy, backstabbing, CYA, underpaying, deceptive, miserable job within most departments. I'm not disgruntled, I'm just telling it like it is.

5.0
Apr 6, 2014

doing good and growing

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A medium size organization with room to grow both within your position and room for promotion. One feels that you are doing good works in the community even if you are not on the front lines of mission services.

Cons

Goodwill is a international organization split into districts. Each district is run as an individual organization. Each district does things a little bit differently in their communities. Thus, there isn't a unified, nationwide understanding of what Goodwill does.

1.0
Apr 6, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you like being on your feet all day running, hanging 3000 /30 racks or more of unorganized clothes divided among 2 or 3 other associates each day , register duty,(when youre not ringing youre hanging) dressing rooms clean up(nightmare) constantly cleaning- don't dare stand still! There is always work to be done. Being physically exhausted when you get home. Then this is the job for you! Customers are nice! Great place to shop

Cons

Read sarcastic Pros!!! LOL. Seriously understaffed for the work expected. Constantly losing staff and not replacing staff because of payroll issues- less staff more workload. It might be less exhausting digging ditches for a living. finally got fed up with the BS and quit. Lot of shifty politics

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