Primark reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(12,200 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 12,200 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
3.0
Nov 13, 2016

Penney's

Recommend
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Pros

Most of the workers and managers are lovely. Plenty of hours most of the time. Can be very busy and the day flies by.

Cons

Hard to find out about entitlements. Seniority rules are ridiculous, you cannot get any holidays that you want until you move up the rank of seniority.

1.0
Nov 12, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

None to speak of.No benefits for staff.Management could not even say good morning to staff.

Cons

Senior management are arrogant, bullying, short sighted and disrespectful.Culture is very poor.Some Management and staff are treated very badly depending if your face fits.Loyalty is ignored.If you are male, arrogant and stupid you will go far.Awful culture with bullying actively encouraged

2.0
Nov 11, 2016

No room for growth

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-The pay is great but not enough for the work you do - I love the people I work with -PTO - Visits from CEO and others are great but stressful

Cons

It's a very stressful environment. Its very hard to advance with the company. Supervisors have also trained to be TMs in a 10 week program and no one advanced. They like to hire externally rather than promote from within. They bring employees from overseas to help out when we can do it ourselves, if they gave us a chance. The employees that come over have all expenses paid, the company pays for housing, meals and transportation. That is a lot of money being thrown around and they can't give management raises? Retail assistants just got a raise to $12/hr, they are giving that raise to all of them. Regardless if they have been working for the store since opening or if they were just hired. That is not fair to the staff who have been working over a year. There's no recognition plan in place. Not so much of a big deal but, I understand as a manager you need to be there for all your shifts. It's hard for managers to call out. My sick days and days owed can't be used.

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