Starbucks Employee Reviews for Anonymous Employee

"No work life-balance. If you want to work every day this is the job for you."

"I have worked for Starbucks in a number of states. The store manager position is not given enough time and resources to do the job that is expected of them. Senior leadership is so removed from what the needs and day to day life of the store is that there is very little support. There is little or no work life balance if you want to get the job done properly."

"I've worked for Starbucks since June 2013."

"Good Company but too many bad employees!"

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

"Try somewhere else! That's the better bet!"

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"Because they hired too may managment level people don't know what's the business really mean!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need to hold themselves accountable!"

"Excellent company to work for!!!"

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"Multimanagers dependency."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"People need different individual approach."

"Great company, dishonest manager."

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"I liked my friends there who were wonderful. My customers were mostly nice as well."

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

"Be *very* careful about which store you work with and who you sign on to work directly for."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"The manager had to make up a story to fire me. Everyone liked my work, but my health care costs were too much for her, so she decided to lie to make it appear as though I were incompetent. I am one of the finest baristas and received awards from the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Remove the manager from the store in Seymour, CT. She is a dishonest person who fires people in a revolving door to keep wages low and her profit high."

"Be adult, be ready and hang on."

What do you like about working at Starbucks?

"Fast paced, efficient teams, Personal networking is necessary to accomplish much but once established, the things you can do are amazing."

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

"Ask the interviewers how long they have been there, how often have they moved cubicles and changed jobs. What would success look like for you. What is the most challenging thing you will have to face. Get some context of the people you will be working directly with. It is a highly networked company - as most resources are matrix-ed. so find out who you will need to know to be successful."

What don't you like about working at Starbucks?

"I was not able to respond definitively yes or no. The comments are accurate as far as they go. I was laid off a year ago. The work and culture is great as long as there are no significant challenge to the bottom line. This is a for profit business; the decisiveness seen in expansion is there in contraction as well. I was not given any options to change position or take cuts, just told I was no longer needed. The "we value our partners" statement is true as long as it does not affect the business. A lot of us laid off were close to the ten year mark - which is when you get vested and start really costing the company money. True, this is also the level of first line management that is necessary during building, but when you want to flatten the organization and are in survival mode, that is the layer most expensive. So you need to be realistic to work there. Which is fine, but there are a lot of folk that get emotionally vested in Starbucks, and not their value on the open market. It is best to be realistic with the us factor there and stay alert to what your true market value is. While I get it and actually embrace the challenge, there are many that felt betrayed, that the company fed them a line and as soon as the economy got bad, instead of working with us to address a problem we became immediately expendable. Currently I hear everyone is still uncertain of long-term economic conditions, but we seem to be taking necessary steps to weather the storm. Basically a good place but you need to be an adult and take responsibility for your career. Stay hungry and don't think the company owes you anything but a chance to get paid for your work. They do reward, but be wary. Pretty common and natural things, but the excitement and rewarding teamwork can suck you into working and developing only along Starbucks line - not yours."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Not much. All my interactions were honest, straightforward and rewarding other than one person, all management were clear on what they needed. There was not too much time for destructive politics. Most would work with you and help you be successful in the tasks. As far as being laid off, there is no perfect way to do this, things move fast in retail and they did provide a severance package that helped. No kick there. I would have preferred to have a say in my future, but we would probably still be negotiation - at Peet's if that were the case."