Starbucks reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(85,183 total reviews)
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Brian Niccol

31% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Starbucks has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 85,183 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Starbucks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurantes y servicios de comidas industry (3.7 stars).

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85K reviews
3.0
Jul 13, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great Benefits and a fun work enviroment, always something new and exciting to do. Pay is pretty good for no experience and you recieve tips as well. Lots of young workers so it's a great enviroment for college age employees. Benefits are incredible cheap medical dental and vision.

Cons

Stressful, very hard to advance in the corporation, stores are closing left and right. Stores are often understaffed due to managment cutting labor so you work twice as hard as nescessary. High turnover in management and they bring in new hires from outside the company instead of promoting from within. No uniform allotment.

4.0
Jul 13, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company is attempting to change to resume high growth in a business environment of rapidly growing competition and deteriorating economy. If you like to participate in change, solve problems, focus on priorities and what's important, there is a lot going on at the Service Center (corporate headquarters). Senior leadership is extremely aware of the danger that this environment poses to the truly unique Starbucks culture, and takes great efforts to maintain the best elements of our culture. Those include passion about the customer and the business, true celebration of diversity and uniqueness of person and perspective, joy in the workplace, and work-life balance as a real commitment rather than a buzzword.

Cons

Data and effective utilization of technology is nearly non-existent relative to truly competitive large companies. Decisions have been made almost entirely on intuition of the most powerful personalities, rather than business savvy and analysis. In certain highly critical areas, there is an attempt to change this, but it doesn't happen overnight. There is very little planning or project management expertise, process, or discipline or appreciation for these skills. The business is significantly more complex than it might appear, and so these specific issues have great impact on financial and operational performance. On the flip side, there is extreme potential for improvement, so if the ongoing change efforts are successful, Starbucks is going to be reborn like a phoenix in the medium term.

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