Kay Jewelers Employee Reviews for Store Manager

"I'm currently working for Kay Jewelers in the management capacity I have been with Kay’s for 5 1/2 years. Working with Kay’s I have recruited and trained up team members within my store to be promoted to store management positions within the company. Before working with Kay’s I was an employee of Belk and Company for just over 14 years I also successfully recruited in that position."

"good place at the time"

What do you like about working at Kay Jewelers?

"Able to meet goals and trip incentives"

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

"Make sure you have what it takes"

What don't you like about working at Kay Jewelers?

"Not being able to advance"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make sure they have a better system"

"Over it"

What do you like about working at Kay Jewelers?

"The discounts on jewelry"

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

"Act the way they want you to act"

What don't you like about working at Kay Jewelers?

"Too much gossip and back stabbing"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Trust the employees and not be the source of the gossip"

"Real life look at working there/been there/done that..."

What do you like about working at Kay Jewelers?

"The consistency of knowing that nothing that management says at any level is to be trusted. Makes it very easy to relax and observe the manipulation of their workforce while it's happening and identify the prevailing trends (both business and political) within the company."

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

"Take anything that they tell you with a HUGE grain of salt, with particular emphasis on any promised compensation, job security and work/life balance. They can and will jettison you like ballast at the slightest whim of management, since they believe whole-heartedly that there are any number of people they can replace you with whenever they wish."

What don't you like about working at Kay Jewelers?

"Abandon all hope of a personal life outside of the business if you are in management in any capacity. This is a cult organization, in that you will notice that it's biggest devotees derive all their relationships and personal as well as professional satisfaction totally from within the organization alone. They usually have alienated themselves from the rest of the world in the process much as any cult members do."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop pretending that you have the best interests of your workers at heart in your company. Your sole motivation is making numbers (sales), and anyone who is devoted to succeeding in your firm quickly realizes this and will gladly throw anyone else under the bus if it can further that goal and their possible career advancement."