Primark reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(12,150 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 12,150 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
Jan 29, 2015

You have good and bad days

Recommend
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Pros

Made lots of great friends, we all work as a team & help each other out, have a good laugh, feels a bit like a family, 20 hour contract which is better than some places which offer less contracted hours, supportive co-workers/supervisors/managers (not all of them but I always feel like there's someone I can go to if I need to), enjoy helping nice customers, relaxed atmosphere, I like that I'm told what I'm doing at the start of my shift and then I'm pretty much left to get on with it unless they want me to do something different, it's better than having managers constantly breathing down your neck and telling you you're doing everything wrong! Members of staff, supervisors and management are generally happy, polite and smiley, very accommodating.

Cons

Rude customers, some bad managers/supervisors, the mess!!! Boring, repetitive tasks which can drive me to insanity some days but other days it doesn't bother me and it's nice that the tasks are easy because I can just be relaxed at work, no staff discount, I know it's cheap but still! Low pay, it's £6.50 an hour now which is minimum wage, I'm hoping for a pay rise in the new tax year!

4.0
Jan 27, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-If working P/T or weekend, lots of opportunities for over time -Generally easy work once you've got the hang of it. Folding becomes menial and it becomes a routine. -Easy to transfer to different stores if relocated

Cons

-Abysmal pay rate (even for London) -No discount for staff -Totalitarian management -Horrible uniform of all black

3.0
Jan 24, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

-plenty of hours available -decent pay for tempoary staff -Includes certain benifits -

Cons

-impossible to disagree with managers -long hours doing repetitive work -cannot use phone, talk to customers

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