Starbucks Employee Reviews

Salary - A | Culture - C | Management - D | Coworkers - C

Pros: Fantastic benefits, unmatched by any other except for maybe government benefits provided by state employment.
Cons: Demanding work load. There is always something needing your attention. You will always be pulled in 5 directions all at once, especially during peak hours.

Be present, be dependable, be willing to step in for a supervisor that needs support. Supervisors can't receive coverage from many people if they have to call in sick.

Salary - C | Culture - F | Management - F | Coworkers - D

Pros: Coworkers are great Sometimes its fun Pay could be decent Free food and drinks at work Partner discount Weekly Coffee Mark-out
Cons: Customers will treat you less than human and the company condones it Hardly ever enough staff to keep up during rushes or general day-to-day making an extremely stressful environment The pay seems great, but you won't be scheduled enough for it to seem significant Food that they say gets donated goes into the trash or home with baristas ^Speaking of which, people have been fired for taking food that was going out anyway An insane amount of food waste and waste in general They preach recycling and have divided trash cans to make customers feel better, but it all goes into the trash

Stop lying about being sustainable, and actually try to sustain your stores. We are struggling and some days got so hard we wanted to clock out and not go back. Stop having partners work above their means and their pay because you refuse to have an adequate amount of employees on the floor. Stop encouraging your customers to mistreat and berate baristas by letting them return after cursing and screaming at employees or calling them racial slurs. This continues every day because baristas are told to just move them along or just switch places with someone instead of facing the actual problem, which is that we are human beings deserving of respect and common decency, but are consistently treated as lesser than over something as simple as a frappuccino. Do better

Salary - B | Culture - C | Management - D | Coworkers - B

Pros: We get lots of good benefits and coworkers are great.
Cons: Pay isn't great and a lot of how good the job is depends on your manager

Salary - | Culture - | Management - | Coworkers - C

Pros: Flexibility, company benefits, training system
Cons: Lack of support from management, pay, abuse from customers

Salary - | Culture - | Management - | Coworkers - C

Pros: Good for in-between jobs. Gets very busy
Cons: Mismanagement and understaffed rushes throughout the day

Salary - D | Culture - F | Management - F | Coworkers - D

Pros: The best parts about working for Starbucks are the other baristas you work with and the regulars that come in daily.
Cons: Everything else is a con… you are treated like the scum of the earth by customers and management, but expected to make meaningful customer connections while also getting orders out at an unreasonable rate. A lot of the time because the turnover was so high I had baby baristas that needed guidance all day, and only one or maybe two partners that were decent at working on bar for peak, but couldn’t get them swapped out for their breaks because of how the schedule was every day. The whole setup was a sinking ship, and each week in our shift meeting with our store manager we were told everything we are doing wrong without ever hearing something positive, how we weren’t leading the floor right and how our out the window times were 5 seconds past what was acceptable. We would put on a show and have a fully staffed floor when important people came to visit, but on a normal day we were fighting for our lives and severely understaffed. The whole store was also a mess and disgusting because the kids that they hire don’t know how to clean properly, so it was 100% a health hazard walking in those doors each day.

Salary - | Culture - | Management - | Coworkers - C

Pros: you get free drinks and snacks
Cons: i was only given EARLY morning shifts

Salary - A | Culture - B | Management - B | Coworkers - B

Pros: Free food and coffee drinks
Cons: Very early shift, not enough hours

Salary - | Culture - | Management - | Coworkers - C

Pros: The benefits are nice. You get free drinks and food. Free Spotify.
Cons: You are in a tight space with other coworkers who you might not get along with. It's very stressful on busy days and very boring on dead days.

Listen to your baristas.

Salary - B | Culture - D | Management - D | Coworkers - D

Pros: Free spotify, good 401k plan
Cons: Hours have to be flexible

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