Staples Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Staples?

"Learned a lot about the Unix OS, tools and shells. Used a lot of scripting."

"I loved my job and territory,made gtrat money during my employment. My division closed."

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"Placing new un qualified managemen.who did not know how to teach,,train,or motivate."

"Great Company,dont see myself getting the notch to go further, even with my experience"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"to understand that employees are humans too, and a little compensation and comment goes a long way"

"Excellent worker's honest opinion after being there for 11 years."

What do you like about working at Staples?

"It was once a friendly place."

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"It is not a friendly place."

"Store Manager for 11 years with no growth opportunties."

What do you like about working at Staples?

"Good business model. I liked both the consumer electronics end of the business and the office supplies side."

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

"Company is headed in the wrong direction."

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"They are trying to be something they are not as it relates to the consumer electronics part of the business. Setting goals way too high and not providing the right compensation to sales people or payroll to offset customer demand."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Invest in the correct payroll based on business needs and customer count. Expectations are to provide outstanding customer service but with low payroll."

"I really enjoyed working at Staples and selling office supplies. Great stock incentives."

What do you like about working at Staples?

"I like the work environment and the challenge."

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"The commission compensation is low and the market is pretty saturated."

What do you like about working at Staples?

"The team environment was great. Most of the staff was very helpful and friendly"

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

"I think that overall it is a great company to work for, if it is in the field you want to stay within"

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"Management in the sales department. Most of them did not take time to understand the stress and work that the sales staff had to do. My manager came from the sales environment, but did not want to really help employees and did not want to do work to find answers to the questions asked."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Learn to understand the staff that they manage. I woud suggest spending at least a week in the staffs shoes, so they have an understanding of how the job operates"

"Good for a part-time job"

What do you like about working at Staples?

"The customer and coworkers are great."

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"The store management team has poor people skills."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"they need to focus on how they treat and speak to people."

"Good company"

What do you like about working at Staples?

"The company"

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"Some of the Managers"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Treat everyone equal"

What do you like about working at Staples?

"Office staff"

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"No back up from owner"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stand behind your field staff."

What do you like about working at Staples?

"friendly people, freedom to go build new business"

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"treated like a number versus an individual."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Invest in your people and you will see great returns"

"Great company."

"Staples is a standard retailer, alright part time job, not worth it for a full time job"

What do you like about working at Staples?

"Task oriented"

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"Management is"

"good opportunity with no support from managemeny"

What do you like about working at Staples?

"Managing a new divison to sucess,and building up sales for me and the account managers in a vertical market"

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

"Beware, they will let you build up thre business only to have you start over due to compensation."

What don't you like about working at Staples?

"The lack of competent,trust worthy upper managers. You build it and they will take it away to control your world. Moving the Cheese and making change just to make a change. A lack of focus due to changes , and putting in managing staff with no grace of authority. They all seem to intimidate,berate their employees even whwen they have a winning situation. All of my managers were HEAVY drinkers and were not happy in their position."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Learn to have Grace with authority and back your people,be involved in problem solving not the problem."

"Not much opportunity to build a career."