Primark reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(12,149 total reviews)
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Eoin Tonge

60% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Primark has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 12,149 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
1.0
Mar 1, 2019

Retail Assistant

Recommend
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Pros

There are no pros for Primark

Cons

Bank holidays are taken out of your 28 days statutory holidays No lockers to store your belongings in Staff discount is only 10% and only available 4 times a year Having to wait in line to clock in for your shift using a hand scanner and marked down as late because of this. Managers and supervisors have no respect for the retail assistants. The HR department have no idea what they are doing Having to pick clothes and hangers off the floor for the whole shift. Primark only cares about the customers The pay is only £8.09 per hour which is very low and shocking for central London and is only just above minimum wage. The toilets and locker room are dirty all the time. You have to ask for permission to go to the toilet The sickness policy is very harsh Staff have to walk around in a l love Primark top The majority of the staff are on 20 or 30 hours contacts.

1.0
Feb 6, 2019

Death row imates have it better

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some nice staff thats literally it you may meet the few nice people or join a clique you do you i guess

Cons

How long have you got? In no particular order .absololute slave drivers .management speak to you like crap .don’t dare ask questions to one particular manger she doesn’t like negativity even given to inmprove .supervisors with superiourity complexes think there the ceo by the way they act .no training whatsoever expected to manage the busy fitting room solo with no training .god help you if you don’t know how to do something and ask a manger for hwlo look at you like you’ve just admitted to not knowing what 1+1 is .no access to drinks stored on the stairs cant leave fitting room unmanned to get it .other staff know more about you job then you do they’ll know if your moving sections before you do .don’t tell you there moving you have to learn second hand. .blatant favouritism own staff member cam get away with leaving the tills whenever they please another can take frequent breaks to go upstairs and play on her phone not to mention some of there 30min toilet breaks when they know other people need it and cant get off the tills to go. .whole store dated canteen wouldn’t look out of place in a prison .no one has told these grown adults how to flush a toilet the sights my unspecting eyes have borne witness to in them toilets .security useless you either get a jobsworth or one that comes into the fitting room to vape and call his mates couldn’t catch the hamburgler .don’t even get me started on the turn over rates some are gone so quickly you don’t catch there names. .only toilets in the building are staff and there up a couple hundred stairs, did i mention there’s only one tiny staff lift that’s frequently off? Yeah i cant feel my legs most days .no chairs legs and back kill at the end of the day .low staff moral .who even fills the surveys in customers long gone before you can explain it .no airfresner in fitting room you try and deal with the stench off a thousand un washed men all day with nothing to mask it feel like im in the begging of a febreze ad .cant live of the wages .phones barred on shop floor clearly see managers and supervisors using them .supervisors blank you call for help with the bell and i seriously hope your not being murdered because by the time someone shows up to see what’s up the forensic teams would of finished searching for cause of death and of caught the killer .customers rude and will not listen .no back up .no one knows the rules ask any 10 people managers ect included and everyone of them will tell you something different .expect you to be 3 different people seriously there was a time were i was running fitting room going on tills helping repackage and put out stock all at the same time.

1.0
Jan 29, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Vacation days are great along with benefits.

Cons

No work life balance, absolutely worked like a dog. Males get paid significantly higher than females, no higher managerment support.

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