Coles Group Reviews

Pros

Coles generally has time and money to do things properly
High level of technical expertise in the team
Professional environment but very friendly and welcoming

Cons

Innovation is not a high priority

Advice to Senior Management

No advice offered

Pros

easy to manage work life balance

Cons

not rewarding
hard to get promotions
salary reviews very poor

Advice to Senior Management

***

Pros

good working envrionemnt, average employee benefit

Cons

limited potential to promotion, corporate bureaucracy

Advice to Senior Management

should care more about staff's professional growth

Pros

Friendly environment
above market average pay
Various training opportunities
Great Work union SDA
Payrise every year
Staff Discount
easy Jobs

Cons

Some times great experience almost fully depends on who your manager is, you will enjoy the work if you met a good boss, suffer if you met a ....

Advice to Senior Management

store manager plays a vital role in a store's daily operation, good manager makes team members happy and willing to contribute to the business

Pros

Good Salary, work from home was OK

Cons

Very political, hard if you aren't a member of the boys club

Pros

Good Pay and good salary. Staff are friendly, and coles has good working environment. I also received training to become a duty manager

Cons

Too much pressure from managers. I used to be asked to stay back free of cost sometimes when there were too much left behind.

Advice to Senior Management

Coles nowadays employs all sorts of managers with and without prior experience. Some staff members have better knowledge than the manager.s

Pros

Opportunities for advancement a big positive

Cons

Work/life balance for store salary team members. Expectation of 70+ hour weeks when only paid for 45.
No lunch breaks

Pros

Easy work. Reasonable pay rates. Staff discount card is a plus. Easy and flexible hours. Not a bad place to work

Cons

Boring work, no challenges. Boring people and poor management. Overall not a very satisfying experience. Poor treatment of staff by management.

Advice to Senior Management

Look after staff better and provide more praise when the rig thing is done. Make the jib more challenging and fun.

Pros

Great people and culture. Had the opportunity to contribute to important projects and learned a lot from my time there.

Cons

A lot of bureaucracy, due to being such a large organisation covering many brands. Outdated and complex IT systems and equipment.

Advice to Senior Management

Management is doing a good job of revitalising the company's brand image and fortunes. On track to achieving its five year turnaround plan to catch up with Woolies.

Pros

Great team of Peers in my team

Cons

Lack of pay rises and recognition

Advice to Senior Management

Reward those who do a good job not those who just fix their own problems.