Primark reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(12,194 total reviews)
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Eoin Tonge

61% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Primark has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 12,194 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Primark employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Einzel- & Großhandel industry (3.5 stars).

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12K reviews
4.0
Mar 18, 2013

stressful but rewarding

Recommend
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Pros

lots of people and big teams, lots of career opportunities if ur in the right area, good pay overtime available for staff most of the time

Cons

u get a lot of horrible rude customers of course. can be too stressful and busy for some people. no motivation and not enough support for managers at the moment...feeling like roboters...Nd it seems like primark sometimes just cares about what they want u to be for them, not what you want to be.

2.0
Dec 27, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Decent job. Lots of overtime every week. Nice colleagues.

Cons

It is stressful and very hard work. Being full time there could very a nightmare, on the other hand ot is also like going back the school.they treat the staff like children.A manager send you to tidy and 5 min later another send u to just walk and pick up clothes from the floor and then a supervisor send u to do exactely the opposite, sometimes u feel silly.There is a huge division betwen management and staff.If u are part time u work 4 hours with no break at all.and you never go out at the time you supposed to do it... it is always 20 or 25 min later, sometimes doing a very boring and repetitive work. Some of the managers are quite rude and unpolite, and not very qualified.Very rude customers.And you also have to learn everything by yourself, as they don't give any help training (8 hours of filling forms and reading safety stuff, that's the training). No chance of any progress.

4.0
Jul 12, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

the whole company felt like a small family. everyone knew each other and generally got along very well.

Cons

as a subsidiary, we were too small to be on our own. when our parent company was bought, the culture changed.

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