Burlington Coat Factory Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Stay very far away!!"

What do you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"The only positive was the ability to have a set schedule for school."

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

"This would be an easy close!"

What don't you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"Low pay, managers make $16 per hour, assistant managers maybe get up to $20 if they are lucky. Raises are crap, if you are rated at 'outstanding' you get a whopping 50 cent raise, and most ees get 10 cent raises. Regional managers preach 'promote from within' but constantly hire from the outside. This is not a career, but just a crap job to get by. The company was hit with a huge class action lawsuit and the original owners decided to run and sold the company. As a result, there were layoffs, store closures, and restructuring due to their incompetence. Theft in their stores is rampant yet their loss prevention teams watch the doors instead of doing real LP work. There are are no organized communication channels, it seems like they have several VPs and Directors at the corp office who all want things done their way without any thought behind their ideas. If their stores were run like Macy's it would be much better."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Run the company like a true corporation instead of a mom and pop shop."

"Excellent IT environment. Multiple OS and networking platform exposure."

What do you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"Great people to work with!"

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

"Individuals will be working close with sysadmins, netadmins, dba's, and programmers and a lot of end users. Have a blast!"

What don't you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"Nothing."

What do you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"The customers."

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

"Listen to what the customers wants."

What don't you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"The complaints of the workers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to your employees."

"Decent place to use to get your foot in the door."

What do you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"The time I was there the company was growing and expanding and they were always open to ideas to make the store more comparable with upscale stores versus outright competing with lower end stores like Ross and TJ Maxx."

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

"Treat this place as if you're working at Macy's and never compare it with a store like Ross and you'll do real well."

What don't you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"Although some members of corporate wanted to move forward and try new methods of conducting business to be more customer friendly, the ownership was real traditional so it created some sort of constant contradiction when they tried to run the stores. Management in stores were encouraged to be creative to drive sales, but maintain strict traditional business practices that were really out of date. Almost like you had to find a way to increase your sales in the 21st century using 19th century sales tactics."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None. Management just follows corporate direction. Corporate should give a little more flexibility to the store's management and let the sales speak for the progress. Even when a store's profitability was very high, if corporate saw the store doing things differently from what they wanted, the store was considered a failure."

"A nice place to work while in college, not so much when out."

"Not a bad place to work."

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

"Come well dressed."

"Its got a beat, and you dance to it"

What do you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"The Public, discounts on clothing, and constant challenges."

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

"Always keep in mind: It's not you, it's the situation the customer is upset with"

What don't you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"Lack of support from upper management, closed lines of communication to the district level"

"good place to work"

What do you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"atmosfer, people"

What do you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"The people."

What don't you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"The hours!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Work/life balance!"

What don't you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"Lack of support, lack of equipment old POS systems"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Current DM's need better social skills and sense of work life balance."

"Not the best place to work."

What do you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"Close to school/home."

What don't you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"Bad wages, unprofessional employers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to associates' concerns."

"Good customer services."

"Fair"

What do you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"It was like a family. I knew everyone there and it was a happy friendly place to work at."

What don't you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"I think I was unpaid for the work I was doing there."

"Was my 1st position right out of college."

What do you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"People."

"Horrible managment."

What do you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"Co-workers."

What don't you like about working at Burlington Coat Factory?

"Not very organized."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Staff needs more direction."