Starbucks Reviews

Pros

Benefits are great... dental included

Cons

There is little room for mobility. If you want to move up in the company, you have to fight for years and push your way to it.

Pros

Real people - grounded
Great people to work with
Company is very focused on their "partners" (employees)
Free pound of coffee every week! Woot!
Great place to have a career

Cons

IT Department is seriously lacking good management
Starbucks does COFFEE - not technology
Decisions by consensus - makes for insanely slow decisions/progress
The most passive/aggressive place I've ever seen in 20 years of employment

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees - 3rd party consultants aren't always the DEFACTO truth / best option
Let go of "this is how we've always done it". That attitude is going to ruin Starbucks
Change is GOOD.

Pros

So long as you have a good team of co-workers it can be an easy and relatively enjoyable experience. However, without that the time will drag.

Cons

Many of the customers were rude and disrespectful because of my employment position. Despite the fact that myself and my fellow co-workers were nearly all working part-time while paying our way through college.

Advice to Senior Management

There seemed to be a disconnect between the store managers and regional/upper management in my area.

Pros

great culture scheduling flexibility great benefits

Cons

Poor work life balance for managment pay below minimum salaries for similar careers with similar job responsibilities

Advice to Senior Management

Improve work life balance for managers

Pros

Personalities are diverse and refreshing, most of the time.

Cons

Always remember, the employees hired, are sometimes a reflection of the managment.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't just hire someone, just because they've applied for the job. Please, think of the rest of the crew and decide whether or not the newbie would be a perfect "fit." One person can completely change the dynamics of an amazing group of talented people.

Pros

It is an efficient organisation and every item has its place. There are no complicated methods and after a while the work becomes easy.

Cons

There is not much atmosphere given the fact that you are not working with more than three people at any one time. Also the pay is not spectacular.

Advice to Senior Management

Feel more perks are necessary to improve staff morale. A new starbucks t shirt would also be nice as after a while the old one is not nice.

Pros

* flexible work hours

* excellent benefits(don't have to pay alot)

* chance to work in other starbucks shops

Cons

* very political

* was not satisfied with pay rate

* poor communication from senior management

Advice to Senior Management

listen to your partners, the customer is NOT always right.

Pros

The benefits are truly great. You get stock options, health insurance for part time partners, vacation time and a free bag of coffee every week.

Cons

It is very labor intensive and is extremely hard on your body. Cleaning is about 50% of the job. The hours are ruthless, either getting up and at work at 4am or staying open to 11 or midnight on the weekends.

Advice to Senior Management

They are not very sympathetic mainly because they don't have to be up at early as you do. Nor do most of them actually know how to bar-but they happily tell you how to anyway. I would say that they need to be in the stores more and not in meetings.

Pros

co-workers and customers were wonderful

Cons

district level management and above only interested in profit

Advice to Senior Management

put people first again. starbucks was once a place to be very proud of working at.

Pros

Love my coworkers and the job in general.

Cons

Really hard to advance, very political and do not pick the people who deserve it.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay your employees better