Working at Belk in Charlotte, NC: 10 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Charlotte, NC Area

"I worked at Belk for 2 years and 2 different times. Each time was completely different as the first time I was a temporary contract employee and during my second time, I was a full-time W2 employee. The company is a family environment but can be a bit clique-ish. In some departments forward advancement is based on the favoritism of the supervisor. It is a great place to begin a career in retail, but I am not sure if I would recommend them long-term."

"Belk is an awesome company to work with."

"I was a store manager for years, then Belk was sold to sycamore partners and things started to change, first very slowly, then in 2017 and 2018 they made drastic changes, my regional manager wanted to pay new employees $11-$12 an hour which made it impossible to hire new employees, and the employees we did hire were the bottom of the barrel, and the customers started to notice this. Other eye opening things were the changes in upper management, HR, regional/division executives would come and go like a revolving door, then long term employees in my store started to quit, one by one, until I had a store of new hires and customer service, store presentation, execution of duties/directives started to slow down, the STM's were told to pick up the slack on a $35,000 salary working 50 hours, then they started to quit, that's when I threw in the towel and realized I was in a sinking ship, So sad what Belk has become."

"Nice company to work with."

"Yes, good. It was wonderful working with such an organization."

What do you like about working at Belk?

"I like Charlotte. We have some really talented Buyers and are given the freedom to make decisions independently to drive business."

What don't you like about working at Belk?

"There is no room for professional growth and there have been some very questionable decisions made by Senior management in regards to the direction of the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"My main advice would be to promote from within and reward superior results. My secondary advice would be to place a little more trust in the Buyers to make the right decisions."

"Valuable retail and testing experience gained working there."