Target reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(94,142 total reviews)
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Michael Fiddelke

47% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Target has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 94,142 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Target 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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94K reviews
2.0
May 29, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Decent salary for a new college grad(60k)

Cons

60+ hour work weeks (usually in the 70s) Awful work/life balance Retail Management isn't a marketable skillset (you could only work for all the retail stores - Walmart, Kmart, etc, which is the same as Target) and no other job industry cares about your management experience. It doesn't translate. Career trajectory is awful. Even the head store manager is still working 60+ hours/week and zero work/life balance despite being with the company 7+ years.

5.0
Oct 24, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

close to where I currently live

Cons

no promotion last 3 year

5.0
Aug 16, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The managers/directors really work hard to encourage modern tech culture of self-managed teams, fail-fast, engineers-make-the-engineering-decisions kind of organization. Most of the people I worked with were very transparent and genuine and encouraged you to speak your mind; not a lot of red tape or petty politics. Really invest in their engineers: 50 days a year to be used on whatever career development learning you want do. Even when they,ve had massive outages/bugs in production, I've never seen anyone blamed or fired for an well-intentioned mistake discovered in a post-mortem.

Cons

Still an old company with some legacy artifacts. A few backend business functions still rely on IBM Mainframe, VB, SOAP requests etc. Only every now and then did I hear crap like "but we've done it this way for 10 years".

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