Starbucks Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"Everything, I really, enjoyed my time there, it made me feel special."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Drink water when you wake up. It helps clear the mind and regain focus."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"Having to quit. I had to take care of my children because my wife left me and the children."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Serve before ordering. Being a great leader means being a great subordinate."

"My time at Starbucks was great, now it is time to move on."

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"I liked the following about working with Starbucks the perks, co-workers and customers."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Get on your knowledge of coffee. Learn their regions, roast type and pairings."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"What I did not like about working here were the hours. I am seeking more stability."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None, my management team was awesome, anything I needed they tried their best to make it happen."

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"Very collaborative place encouraging team work with great and savvy people very motivated."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Knowing deeply the company culture will certainly help a lot."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"Leadership can be very authoritarian and self-centric and not helping you to develop."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't expect people to guess what you want, frame your needs. Make meetings productive by always providing an agenda and following up with key action items."

"Fun, stressful, interesting."

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"I love the customer interaction and philanthropic work we do."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Have a friendly, outgoing personality. Starbucks hires people who have great communication skills and have a welcoming aura to them."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"The fluctuation of hours per week, the difficult and rude customers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Become more well-balanced in your work and learn to take criticism."

"My job involved working for continuous Improvement, production, and training staff."

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"I love working in the food industry and with my peers."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"Leadership wasn't supervisor-friendly, and was borderline abusive with their peers and direction."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Desperately need training on working cultures and lean manufacturing principles."

"It is great!"

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"It is great, great people, great drinks, great atmosphere... Coffee!"

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"Sometimes customers can really, really get on your nerves. I guess it's good that we have great, great people, great drinks, great atmosphere... Coffee!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Just keep up the great, great people, great drinks, great atmosphere... Coffee!"

"It was good for a young person with no education."

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"The people and the atmosphere. The regulars that you built a relationship with."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"All I can say is go in there and be yourself, and be honest."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"The hours that you were scheduled, and the compensation that you were given."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would tell them to be a little more open to ideas and suggestions."

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"There's a great team of people; I know the job inside out."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Find something else. Or (if you're desperate) take the job, give them what they want, (a robot with a big smile and no brain) then abandon them as soon as you find something new - don't leave it too long or you'll get stuck."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"Monotonous; repetitive. Don't feel like I'm progressing, learning anything new or getting anywhere in life."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I wouldn't be expecting the staff to bend over backwards for the company - they don't care. Also wouldn't expect them to work weekends when I'm not ready to do it."

"Great."

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"I loved being creative and expressing myself. I have always loved the culinary arts even though Starbucks is just coffee, pastries and now they have real food since I left. It was fun to create different drinks at Starbucks and to interact with our regular customers."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Put on a smile and be prepared for hard work. There is no slacking off at this job."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"Sometimes it was stressful during the holidays because we were in a kiosk in a popular shopping mall. The line could get so long and the customers were not always nice. I didn't let it get to me."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They were great. It would have been nice to have more space in that small kiosk."

"I love my job. It allows me to work hard and give superior customer service."

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"I love that we are all partners. We are all treated equally and recognized as such. There are also plenty of opportunities to grow and expand within the company."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I would tell them that they need to want the job, not just for money reasons, but because they want to be there. It is important to have passion while doing this job because it requires a high level. Also that it is a lot harder than it looks. There is a lot to learn and plenty of resources to assure complete knowledge, but definitely a high pressure position."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"The early mornings are one of the only complaints, but people love coffee and I love helping them get it."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I really have no large suggestions at all. I believe that my manager is great at what they do."

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"The overall culture and people are great to work with."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be very enthusiastic and be willing to learn a LOT in as short amount of time as possible."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"When it comes to partner relations it seems that employee problems aren't exactly at the top of the company's list."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus less on commercial aspects and more on what made the coffee company feel like before."

"Increasing job duties and little incentives for growth."

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"The benefits are good and decent starting pay for baristas."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't apply if you can help it. You'll be overworked and underemployed."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"The increasing job duties belie the compensation for those duties. Employees are often overworked and underemployed and many times the management above store managers enforce rules and duties that are unreasonable for many situations (i.e. telling employees to continue to give service to rude customers who often make racist comments). Also some of the benefits have small breakdowns when coverage is minimal due to micromanagement of cases."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Care more about the employees as they are the driving force for business. Making the employees happier increases productivity. Proper training of some management positions should be required as many keyholders/managers actively break rules or risk other employees' jobs because they don't feel like doing something."

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"The people, the business, and the wonderful benefits, all make Starbucks a wonderful working enviroment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be personable, care about the customers and the work."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"The little things are often more managed than how I go about them."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hardly much different, maybe change some training routines and drink standards."

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"The issue is that everyone is entirely too negative. They're putting down each other, the customers and never taking a look at themselves to see how they can change. How they might be effecting the environment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Use it as a stepping stone and learn what you can about customer service and human interaction but only stay if you feel like this is where God is calling you."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"Exceedingly negative and no one standing up to the negative people. Basically, they're the loudest voices and nothing is changing in their lives, I just keep wondering, why."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Actually spend time trying to develop my workers. Finding out the dreams in their hearts so that they can flourish and succeed in the end. How could we see them fulfill what they feel that they need to do"

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"The people I work with and our customers are interesting."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Finish college, get a degree, don't begin in retail, it sucks your life out."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"Its too cookie-cutter corporate, and due to the lack of quality in most products, I cannot get enthusiastic enough to feel good about selling things."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Slim down the offerings and focus on making better quality coffee and espresso beverages, not aimed for just quantity."