Banana Republic Reviews

Pros

-Great employee discount
-Depending on your location, a generally polite and clean clientele
-Lots of feedback from managers, and internal motivation
-Clear goals and quotas

Cons

-As with any retail job, you must be ready for a standing, moving, and constantly selling environment.
-Other retailers may have more incentives for employees
-Not enough hours for part timers
-Inconsistency with scheduling

Advice to Senior Management

-plan consistent (or moderately consistent) scheduling.

Pros

The management staff is friendly, knowledgeable, fair and fun to work with. The employee areas (break area, bathrooms) are always very clean, though i'm not sure who takes care of that stuff.

Cons

The pay is bare minimum wage, which isn't awful for what you do, but at a store like BR where the price point is fairly high I expected more. If you don't like folding clothes when it's slow, don't bother with retail!

Pros

Great discounts and benefits for p/t. Flexible scheduling. Great incentives

Cons

There is no downside working for Banana. Pushing the Banana card can be tedious and difficult in this economic downturn. Working Black friday sucks.

Pros

Employee discount was fairly decent up until they started giving customers the same perks so the company could meet sales goals without taking steep discounts on merchandise. 4 weeks vacation.

Cons

Pay scale is not fair. Numerous times I managed other employees who were being paid more than me, who had less experience. Large corporation who pays poorly. Company seems to have lost their direction. Gap Inc was the place to work in the late 90's early 2000's but they have lost they're target market. Too much product, less is more. Unrealistic time frames in which they want task/assignments completed.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to pay better attention to whom you promote. Focus more on what your customer needs and less on selling credit cards. Probably wouldn't lose so many managers to competition if you would pay more competitively. Bottom line based on lack of work/ personal life balance I stepped down to part time. I recently interviewed for a full time position and was offered 27,000 a year (salary) I had ten years with the company and 8 spent in a management role. I left and was offered a position with a competitor for 47,000 a year (salary). I was insulted for the last time by Gap Inc.

Pros

if you like fashion, this is the place for you. if you like being over worked and under paid banana is the place for you

Cons

over worked and under paid. great company to work for but they dont appreciate their employee. the discount is great

Pros

The managers were nice at times.

Cons

It was a very annoying job. Snotty customers who thought they were on top of the world because they shopped at Banana Republic. Overall crowd of shoppers over the age of 30.

Pros

Great pay, awesome discount, cool coworkers

Cons

Shoving banana cards down people's throat

Advice to Senior Management

Actually teach us things about how to do the job, instead of making us feel like we're stupid. Don't be rude, and make racist comments.

Pros

The work is not hard, mostly just folding clothes and running for sizes. I never felt too pressured by the management. Very friendly people.

Cons

The job can be very boring at times. Would not let me talk to much to other employees. Possible upward growth but not easy

Advice to Senior Management

keep doing what you are doing. I do not have to many negative things to say to my management, very pleased.

Pros

Co-workers are great
50% discount
Their different sales on apparel are great

Cons

Very low wages...literally under $9/hr
Very low raises...such as 9 cents, 15 cents, 25 cents, etc...and this is within a year
High turnover ratio
They expect you to not want to move up in life
They work you extremely hard and you're not rewarded
They hound you for Banana Cards

Advice to Senior Management

They only look after each other....the subordinates' desires and needs are meaningless to management..

Pros

they have flexible schedules, and are willing to accomodate leaves. Also, they do good in store training and are constantly updating their employees on new products.

Cons

it can be boring at times, but overall good experience. Can be slow, and can be extremely fast and busy during the holiday months. Can get messy and times and folding clothes gets repetitive. Some customers can be rude

Advice to Senior Management

Encourage diversity and also take time to educate employees about the offerings and products. Many times there are employees who are clueless at to what is offered in its stores and which demographics it targets.