Waitrose reviews

3.9

67% would recommend to a friend

(8,749 total reviews)
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Jason Tarry

74% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Waitrose has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 8,749 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Waitrose 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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9K reviews
5.0
May 8, 2024

Amazing

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

People are amazingly friendly and good natured

Cons

can sometimes exhausting with overtimes

1.0
May 7, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

It’s a job. Good products, without this opportunity I wouldn’t have experienced being a partner. Chance to work in a small Scottish town and serve some nice customers.

Cons

It’s a job and a job of three partners. Constantly, on the back foot, no respite from being isolated and humiliated. Unhappy, partners quite happy to stick the knife in my back. Lazy partners and not proactive for this to succeed. Young partners saw this as an extension of their social life and treated it as a stepping stone through their education, career path and uncommitted. Didn’t care and that was massively disappointing. As they get older, they will care. Poor location of business and had to be central to have any hope.

2.0
Apr 28, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

• free food sometimes in the break room. • colleagues are mostly friendly. • employees discount. • most managers aren't micromanaging you, if you show them you're reliable and just leave you alone.

Cons

• the hours are really terrible and you can't get them changed for months if ever. • customers can be horrible. • managers can give you too many tasks that are time sensitive or too much to do within a few hours, and then you'll see other colleagues doing one thing for hours. • managers take weeks to sign off holiday etc,.

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