Starbucks Reviews

Pros

Good work environment
Job becomes like second nature once you get the hang of things
Free drinks while on the clock
Employee discount

Cons

Low wages
Requires open availability- difficult for full time students
Dealing with demanding customers
Not so challenging after a while

Advice to Senior Management

Not every employee needs to have 30 hours of availability to work here. Offer a wider variety of desired availabilities for those desiring more or less hours.

Pros

Starbucks allows for fast promotion, many opportunities to relocate and work in different areas. Overall, it's a great company and a great place to start working for a young adult.

Cons

Can be stressful at times and the pressure to make drinks for unruly customers can sometimes be too much to handle.

Advice to Senior Management

Starbucks has great management overall, but could use some work at the store manager level. Sometimes store managers will do management tasks in the back while they are supposed to be working on the floor.

Pros

Meet awesome customers and develop relationships

Cons

Waking up early, management issues, drama drama drama drama

Advice to Senior Management

Stop making your employees feel awful, listen to your employees before you change things.

Pros

drive to build Entrepreneurship in managers, focus on development of partners, diversity in company is embraced, benefits and package are excellent

Cons

baristas, supervisors should be paid more, often too much on the agenda , the SM, SS, barista team does a lot earn more pay than provided

Advice to Senior Management

embrace internal talent more before you go external, consider wage gap between store managers, the gap is too wide now

Pros

schedule flexibilty and advancement benefits

Cons

starbucks needs to update technology used on a daily basis

Advice to Senior Management

none they do a great job

Pros

Easy, fun, work environment. A great way to talk to customers and meet people from the neighborhood.

Cons

It's frustrating when people think our job is "easy". It's not.

Pros

Great team to work with.
Chances for advancement and a great insurance plan for the kind of company it is

Cons

The pay is really low when you consider how much a drink cost and home much the company is making, but that's america huh.

Advice to Senior Management

Great place to work I just wish that they offered more money per hour. Training was good too I thought it was really professional

Pros

Pretty easy job as far as skill set goes
Free food

Cons

Opening and closing shifts take a long time.

Pros

Great customers, awesome co-workers, free drinks, fast-paced work environment, easy opportunities for advancement, opportunities to make good connections/networks with customers, good coffee, lots of hours if work availability is good

Cons

Very stressful environment (fast paced but stressful), low work morale, irate customers (but few and far between), favoritism of management towards certain employees, hate from management towards certain employees, "just say yes" policy toward the most outrageous requests

Advice to Senior Management

Being a leader myself, I know EXACTLY what needs to be done. First and foremost, COMMUNICATION is KEY when working in such a huge corporation. Many things don't get passed down from upper manaagent to supervisors and in turn, we take the heat for things as simple as a closing manager not letting the opening supervisor know that there is no soy milk in the store. Baristas and ultimately customers suffer from this miscommunication.

Pros

The benefits are the largest reason Starbucks is a Fortune 500 company. It is also a great place to work while attending college as the hours are very flexible.

Cons

You are a robot: everything is laid out in repeatable routines that make the job monotonous.

Advice to Senior Management

Play the game. If you are a Starbucks cheerleader you will succeed, any doubt and you're out. Business degrees are a plus as sales have become the main focus.