Target Reviews in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN Area

Pros

- Involvemnet in communitities
- 5% of profits donated to charities

Cons

- I recieved outsatnding review scores for 2 years and have a bachelors degree in business management and was told I did not have enough experience to promote to an Executive Team Lead. I had 6 supervisors in my 2 years who where all fresh out of college.

Pros

Target has a feedback oriented culture, a warm cozy family feeling, and the senior leaders are really looking out for you. Overall it's great corporate culture! Also you're given a lot of responsbility from the beginning, which is unique for a graduate coming right out of college

Cons

Work can be redundant, very political environment

Pros

Great work life balance, great people. The city of Minneapolis was really great, and the corporate culture was very young and inviting.

Cons

Salary, ability to advance in the company. There is no travel involved, so if you are looking for that, seek else where. They also have a great logo.

Advice to Senior Management

I would make it easier to advance within the company. Stop with the constant feedback culture perspective. Increase salary and be more available to business analyst interns.

Pros

Great culture and atmosphere
10% employee discount

Cons

Downtown Minneapolis
Culture can be like high school

Advice to Senior Management

Need to innovate and try something new to excite guests.

Pros

Lot of investment in employees
Career advancement and clear paths
Great co-workers
Very respected company, take pride in working there
Make huge impacts on the business

Cons

Have fun working nights and alternating weekends
Get to work extremely early, stay late
Close on Christmas eve and other holidays

Advice to Senior Management

Change the schedule to working every third weekend and you would have a lot more retention.
Do away with the unnecessary corporate 'busy work'
better communication from head quarters

Pros

Allows individuals to experience multiple positions and explore their own careers.
Gives excellent training
Great work life balance
Supportive in education

Cons

Extremely bureaucratic and can tend to push lower level people to the side
Sr.Management is close minded to new ideas
Too conservative
Absolutely no diversity at all

Advice to Senior Management

This is a global community. Your workforce, ideas, and leadership needs to reflect that. Get too mired in process, and it will reflect in your product

Pros

Target team members at HQ are mostly hard working fun people to be around. My manager cares about my development and gives me the latitude to work independently. Target invests in my development and seems to be looking for ways to allow me to spend a significant amount of my career at Target (15+ years).

Cons

The leadership at Target is mostly politically conservative and that leaks into company actions on occasion. The MN Forward was the single most disappointing access my company took during my employment. Leadership has acknowledged that the gift was short-sighted, but I think the CEO is more irritated that he got caught instead of truly feeling remorse.

Despite efforts to reduce this, promotions for some seem to be based on who they know instead of their skill level. While this is less than in the past, it still occurs.

Advice to Senior Management

If something on a best team survey cannot be changed say it instead of putting together teams to address the issue.

Pros

Many opportunities for advancement
Management tried hard
Decent pay and health benefits
Great culture (work hard, play hard)
Smart co-workers

Cons

Work/Life Balance
Computer systems can be beyond frustrating
Training does not necessarily set you up for success
Not enough vacation days

Advice to Senior Management

Increasing vacation days would help with transplant retention
Invest in new computer systems and programs
Constant changes to "best methods" are impossible to keep up with

Pros

Excellent growth potential, mapped out career paths, easy people to get along with, laughable work/life balance (can change by department)

Cons

Artificially fun/happy attitudes in many employees (team members, see what I mean), mandatory 1 year in role rotations if you are good (even if you have 9/10 points on your review, you will only advance when you hit a year in role and have an open position available), raises are laughable (1.5% if your performance is very average, and 2.5% if you are incredible).

Pros

Good work environment for all

Cons

Too many specialized support groups to gain "sign off" from

Advice to Senior Management

None