Target reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(94,188 total reviews)
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Michael Fiddelke

47% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Target has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 94,188 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Target employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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4.0
Oct 27, 2013
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Pros

You control your destiny at Target if you have strong business acumen, are able to get results through your team and stay positive and solutions oriented. I truly enjoy the autonomy and freedom I have to run my store and lead my team to exceed company standards. High importance placed on leadership development for team and self.

Cons

Very metric driven, even when metrics don't mean great service or the right thing for the team/guest. Work/life balance is not great and we teach our teams to expect all leaders to be on the floor at all times, which leads little time for planning.

3.0
Oct 9, 2013

Bureaucratic and stale

Recommend
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Pros

Team members are cool normal people.

Cons

When i worked at Target there were two guys named Josh. One was black, one was white. Both cool guys, easily distinguishable. Our HR lady needed black Josh, but instead of referring to him as black - she named every single other attribute to dance around the obvious distinction of skin color/race. This is management in a nutshell. Overly PC to the point where you have to tip toe when talking to them. Don't challenge existing company ideas or you might get canned. Steve Jobs would hate Target.

1.0
Oct 9, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Some cool people to work with and nice merchandise

Cons

1) Weird hours and unworkable hours like coming in at 4:30 pm-12 am and then coming in the next day at 8:00 am 2) low pay its laughable for the amount of work you do 3) company is into quantity over quality, Target cares about speed over anything. If you do the work but don't get it finished when they want it, you get treated as if you didn't do it at all. 4)Not enough employees on floor. People working multiple sections because Managers cut hours, but still expect things completed in a short time.( ex: zone whole sections in 10 minutes!)Employees on floor have to work multiple sections. 1 person at Customer Service, 1 in Electronics, 1 person in electronics works 3 different sections,1 person in the food court with 6 customers in line. the 1 employee working 3 sections, keeps getting called up for back up cashier because Target only has 3 cashiers working until 4:30. The fitting room person having to answer phones and count customers items is unrealistic. Answering phone calls back to back with about 8 people waiting for a dressing room, folding clothes. So customer has to walk over to another section to get help, taking that employee away from their assigned area, etc, the cycle continues. Way to many managers but store is disorganized.Training to Target is telling you how to do it one time, If you ask again you get treated like your stupid. I will never work for this company again. I worked at two different Target stores and got the same issues.

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