Starbucks Employee Reviews for Barista

"I love what I do as a barista, including all of the customer service, but it is time for a change."

"Awesome Company for a young person still living with their parents."

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"The environment that Starbucks offers, along with the endless smiles and encouragement you receive from all the employees."

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

"Starbucks is a healthy, fast moving, positive minded environment, so always bring a smile on your face."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"As a barista you are only considered part-time, which means your hours range from 12 hours to 31 hours a week and if the store had a bad week of sales you will get the minimum hours."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep up the awesome job and encourage the partners for management."

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"I like the flexible hours, and how often I am able to connect with my customers. Also, everyone does the same work, regardless of title, and that enforces our teamwork and rapport with our superiors."

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

"Be friendly! Show that you like connecting with people, and you'll do well. Starbucks is all about customer satisfaction!"

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"We are not really allowed to refuse service to a customer, and are often treated poorly by the people we serve. I think there is still the stigma of starbucks being a 'fast-food' type of business, and the attitude we receive may be related to that.Also, while there is flexibility to request time off, often your shifts are varied widely in time (an open after getting off at 9pm the night previous, etc) and hours. Some weeks, I have almost thirty, others only ten."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would relax the rules involving tattoos and hair color... provided they are not profane, I feel disallowing these things is counter-intuitive to the 'everyone is a unique, special customer' when we all look alike."

"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."

"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?

"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 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?

"Upper mgmt takes care of employees - middle mgmt does not."

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

"Know what you're getting into - retail doesn't turn into corporate."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"Middle mgmt puts pressure on the employees to make up ground when their stupid decisions put us in a bad position, without thought."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to employee and customer feedback and act on it."