Target Employee Reviews

1.0

None (Current Employee)

14.11.2023, Job Location: Osage Beach, MO

Management is awful consistently scheduling people outside of their availability to “meet business needs” Executive team lead can be heard throwing tantrums and yelling about personal issues on the sales floor or in the offices.

Team member issues are never held confidential as they should be and the work environment is truly a joke to be employed in. Management bullies you and makes you feel less than and uncomfortable holding your job over your head as a way to convince you to do more work than you are paid to do.

This is because of their poor retention and inability to train and staff properly.

2.0

Front of Store Attendant (Current Employee)

25.9.2023, Job Location: Roswell, GA

Though the $15 an hour is appealing, in this day and age it just feels like minimum wage, especially for how they overwork everyone.

Failing stores are not given many hours to allocate so you have a skeleton crew only working half shifts at a time, while still under the pressure of impossible corporate standards.

Management is generally nice and understanding, but under pressure of impossible corporate standards, they are forced to take advantage of hard working and kind hearted employees.

Raises are only given between 3-50 CENTS each year based on performance, customers(yes, customers, I do not consider them "guests") constantly abuse the policies, lash out on employees and (mostly teenagers) be disruptive and destructive to the store as a whole, there are many, many better opportunities out there than Target can't not recommend this job enough.

3.0

OPU (Current Employee)

23.7.2023, Job Location: Murrieta, CA

Majority of employees at this location use lemon juice in their Cheerios for breakfast as evidenced by their seemingly always sour attitudes. While there are some very nice people there, most behave negatively toxic.

Only you can control you, but the toxic demeanors, energy, attitudes were you thin. The best part of the day are the customers!! They are almost always surprised when I am friendly & helpful.

Really sad and definitely not what corporate portrays as the Target way work environment. Go in, do your job, avoid engaging with co-workers as much as possible, and go home.

Could and should be such a different vibe, but people are people and misery spreads like smallpox!

1.0

General Merchandise (Former Employee) - - June 6, 2023

6.6.2023, Job Location: Naples, FL

If you. Have a good team and Manager in your area it will be fine.

They don’t like to hire within it’s mostly external for the higher up positions. A lot of the times they are understaffed so you’ll end up either being trained for a different position or kind of get forced into a different position often get caught up to the registers if you’re not a cashier.

2.0

Senior Team Leader - Logistics (Former Employee)

9.5.2023, Job Location: Orlando, FL

Typical day started with a small team huddle and assigning roles for the shift. Logistics teams run concurrently to normal store operations.

This means you'll be doing both customer service and stocking shelves, running online fulfillment, or any number of other functions that fall under "logistics". All the normal sales aspects of any retailer still apply to the logistics teams, so expect hours to be cut harshly on slowdowns or when the store fails to meet sales goals.

Additionally, outside of optional consultation with your manager, you have no input on scheduling or assignment of tasks. Highly recommend for a 1st time supervisor position, or as a stepping stone into a position that more aligns with your career goals.

1.0

Starbucks Barista (Current Employee)

28.4.2023, Job Location: Anaheim, CA

The few target managers who ARE trained in the starbucks department literally never help when you are the only person all day, they just watch you struggle.

They don’t even realize that someone from starbucks hasn’t showed up for their shift because all they care about is target. They say how we’re all a team and it does NOT feel that way. It feels like starbucks is on its own.

They don’t care unless it’s their department. And the pay doesn’t even reflect the work load that you are doing. They refuse to hire more people and they would rather you quit and hire someone else to do 3 people’s jobs for the price of 1.

5.0

Guest Service Representative (Former Employee)

10.4.2023, Job Location: Cedar Rapids, IA

Great Work Culture: Target has a fantastic work culture that values its employees and provides a supportive environment. The company encourages teamwork and collaboration, which makes for a positive work environment. Target also recognizes and rewards its employees for their hard work, which creates a sense of pride and accomplishment among its workforce.

Competitive Pay and Benefits: Target offers competitive pay and benefits to its employees, which includes health insurance, paid time off, and employee discounts. Target also provides opportunities for advancement within the company, which allows employees to grow their careers and increase their earning potential.

Flexible Scheduling: Target provides flexible scheduling options for its employees, which makes it an excellent job for students or anyone looking for part-time work. The company understands that its employees have other responsibilities outside of work and strives to accommodate their schedules whenever possible.

Diverse and Inclusive Workplace: Target is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that values all its employees. The company actively promotes diversity and inclusion in all aspects of its business, which creates a welcoming and supportive environment for everyone.

3.0

Beauty Consultant (Former Employee)

2.4.2023, Job Location: Bemidji, MN

I loved working at Target sometimes, but the atmosphere could be extremely toxic.

Team leads were VERY clique-y and acted like the group of mean popular girls you most likely went to high school with.

And not only do they love to gossip about team members (literally in the shared office so you could hear everything they were saying), but they can never agree on a plan for the day so you'll often have several leaders giving you completely different instructions.

If you get a job at Target, don't be surprised when they train you in every area to the point where you're working more in other departments than you're ever in your own. I was hired in beauty but probably spent more time doing fulfillment and priority pulls for other areas than I spent in beauty.

And when yearly reviews come around in the spring, don't expect your raise to be more than a few cents.

2.0

Starbucks Barista (Current Employee)

26.3.2023, Job Location: Milton, FL

The only thing this job has going for it is it's benefits. Most Targets don't actually follow ther own missions and ethics (despite it being a "training" video that is drilled into you every so many months).

Management takes all the credit for department achievements despite hardly ever being present. Workloads are not evenly divided and one person is expected the do the job of five constantly.

If you ever work the Starbucks or Food Service departments expect to be alone for 5 or more hours, never get answers, and get ignored regardless of how important it is.

The area will always be understaffed and closing one day then opening the next is a common practice.

3.0

Warehouse Worker (Current Employee)

15.3.2023, Job Location: Lacey, WA

The work is going to always low key suck because it’s long 10-12hr shifts of physical work in a warehouse. However, the people are what keep me coming to work.

It does suck that there’s a high turn over due to multiple reasons but there are some amazing long term team members. When business needs dictate there is mandatory over time which is not always easy for everyone.

Also, management here is less than stellar. When I first started direct management was pretty good but people got promoted, others took their places, and the moral of everyone took a hit due to some management not having good communication skills.

Target likes to have college students intern and then hand them a management position when they graduate.

This works great sometimes but when it doesn’t it really sucks having a manager who has obviously never managed anyone, doesn’t know your job functions, and some end up talking to you in a dismissive/disrespectful manner almost daily because they are simultaneously drunk on power and fueled by stress from their higher ups.

2.0

Fulfillment Expert (Current Employee)

1.3.2023, Job Location: Allentown, PA

The place was good when I first started. Management changed and the store went downhill. Managers on you for not being able to find items for orders when these is so much palettes and carts of items not pushed.

Management doesn’t do anything to help just walks around the store or sits in their offices all day and then blame the associates they’re not working fast enough. Every store might be different but my store is going downhill.

We’re losing so many people because things are going downhill, not enough hours and management doesn’t make things better.

3.0

Beauty Consultant (Current Employee)

23.2.2023, Job Location: Lake Park, FL

In my experience, the job itself is pretty easy. Some days are harder than others of course and other team members have been easy to get along with.

Management on the other hand does not bother to hide the fact that they think of us as literal robots. They have high expectations that are sometimes unreasonable and yet do absolutely nothing compared to the team members.

2.0

Team Member (Current Employee)

19.2.2023, Job Location: Wilsonville, OR

I’ve been a Target Team Member for the most stressful 7 months of my life. They are not flexible with scheduling and will almost always deny your time off requests no matter how far in advance you ask.

The work environment is okay if you are social, but there are absolutely no benefits. Everyday I come home drained even after a five hour shift! My life revolves around work because they always schedule at random times on random days.

On top of all of this they don’t even respect your scheduling availability and will make you come in at times you said you couldn’t work. Horrible work, do not recommend.

3.0

General Merchandiser (Former Employee)

7.2.2023, Job Location: Puyallup, WA

I believe this has to do with location. But once you're hired they don't train you at all. You have to search for people to help train you and ask them. But they're also so busy they barley try to train you.

Also no one remembers anyone because theres so many people that work there. So if you're very outgoing and wanting to learn everything on your own, then you'll fit in and like the job. But if it's a job where you just want some easy money. You'll easily be lost and have no clue what you're doing.

2.0

Team Lead (Former Employee)

4.2.2023, Job Location: New Jersey

If you have a family or plan on having a family, stay away. Pay is decent, hours are good - every other weekend off is nice. Don’t get sick, it gets held against you.

Don’t be anyone’s care taker, including your own children. Lots of favoritism, people talk behind your back (which happens most places). They want you to be a team but they don’t act like a team. Management excludes whoever they feel like.

They don’t know how to speak to people & expect you to be a robot, not a human being.

3.0

Team member (Current Employee)

28.1.2023, Job Location: Modesto, CA

Each day can include stocking,zoning,signing,pulling product from the back,backstocking,customer service,setting new planagrams or setting up new displays. Unfortunately there isn't much in the way of training provided so a lot of what i've learned has been trial and error.

2.0

Fulfillment (Former Employee)

23.1.2023, Job Location: Lakewood, CO

In the almost two years I worked at target I met many great people and learned a lot. A lot of those people are the reason I stayed for as long as I did. I worked in fulfillment, cross trained in general merchandise, and then switched to grocery.

All of the work you do involves a handheld device, and a lot of the jobs have general knowledge that you can use if you ever switch to something else at target. Upper management never seemed to understand what the store needed or was capable of, giving us high standards that all of us knew wouldn't be met.

This caused most of the team leads I knew to quit and be replaced. The work was quite monotonous, but that could be a good thing if you like doing the same exact thing everyday.

1.0

General Merchandise Team Leader (Current Employee)

22.1.2023, Job Location: San Bruno, CA

They do not care about you or the work you put in. If you want to move up with a company, this is not the one. They will search for random people off the street instead of promoting within.

I know multiple Team Leads who have worked with the company 15+ years and have still not been promoted to ETL. I've witnessed 5 ETLs being hired all from outside of the company instead of promoting the well deserved people who are already there and knowledgeable.

2.0

Team Member (Former Employee)

14.1.2023, Job Location: Lewisville, TX

The initial training was fun, clear, and easy to complete. Likewise signing up for benefits and such. Actual one-on-one training, however, was virtually non-existent in my case.

The additional employee discount was very nice to have.

The basic wage started relatively high, but weekly hour totals were dictated from a number cruncher in the MN home office looking at expected sales numbers instead of what was actually needed to get the work done, resulting in never reaching 40 scheduled hours per week.

My department (frozen food) was severely behind and disorganized when I arrived, and I was actively discouraged from taking corrective measures (organizing back stock and correcting item counts). This resulted in excessive ordering by the automated system, which compounded everything. I still managed to hold even nearly every day, but no one touched my department on my (random) days off, so it got steadily worse and worse until some corporate person was scheduled to visit the store. At these times, I was literally ignored except to be kicked out of my own department so other employees could "help," putting much of it in the wrong places and destroying what organization I was able to accomplish in the freezer.

The fact that I was not consulted or even allowed to be in the conversation regarding this process when I was supposedly the person in charge of this part of the store told me everything I needed to know about pursuing my career there.

In all, I would still consider working for Target in the future, but it would really depend on the management of the particular store. This one left a bad taste in my mouth...

2.0

Team Member (Former Employee)

8.1.2023, Job Location: Roseville, CA

If you enjoy being taken advantage of and being worked like a mule, this is the place for you. They had me doing VM work for regular team member pay.

They also had me constantly working in so many departments of the store, often several in one day, and i was so worn out at the end of every shift. but i met some amazing people working here, and received so many good products for monthly gratis. it had its pros and cons but i ultimately decided that it was a bad place for me to work, and i was being taken advantage of.

2.0

Guest Advocate (Former Employee)

1.1.2023, Job Location: Holyoke, MA

Got literally 30 mins of training, extremely stressful. I worked there for about two months and had no idea who my boss was and no one else seemed to know either.

I was a cashier and at least 1/3 of the registers were always broken and, like I said, I wasn't really taught how to use them. You basically just have to figure everything out yourself. Also, the app where you manage your schedule was down half the time and wouldn't let you request days off.

I asked for 15-20 hours a week and they had me working 30-35. The only good part of the job were the co-workers.

2.0

Warehouse Worker (Current Employee)

1.1.2023, Job Location: Suffolk, VA

Cuts hours when they want. Then makes you come in for mandatory overtime when they want. The work is never steady and management always changing because they fire so many.

1.0

Specialty Team Member (Former Employee)

30.12.2022, Job Location: Melbourne Village, FL

I was excited to work for Target, but once I started working I realized how unprofessional and unorganized the management is.

Too much work is pushed on just one person in one shift for one department and you are blamed for not completing it all. Lack of communication from management is frustrating and they don't fully inform you on how to do anything or miss out important details about your position.

Fellow team members are more helpful and informative than your leads. Lack of employees means that 99% of the time you don't get to work in your department and are leaving your work you didn't get to complete for the next shifts constantly, which adds up quickly.

Scheduling is chaotic and inconsistent and stating your availability is pointless because they don't listen to it. The stress from the workload, lack of employees and selfish management is just not worth it.

5.0

Cashier and Merchandiser (Former Employee)

24.12.2022, Job Location: Germantown, MD

Each day at Target, you arrive, and you know exactly what to expect. You look at the size of your workload, and from there you know whether the day will be challenging or a piece of cake.

As a CHEM department worker, most days were (moderately) difficult to get things done in time.

As far as management goes, it was beautiful. They were always available, we had HR, any concerns - you knew right where to go.

Now the vibe of the store was really creepy - people would seem strangely interested in me, and someone tried to get me into street preaching black Hebrew doctrine (maybe a joke), things like that is why I left. But I really liked how the company works and I think it would have been great for me had the roster been different.

The discount was 10%, and was around 20% for healthy items. This really could add up if you shop at Target frequently.

2.0

Team Member (Current Employee)

23.12.2022, Job Location: Cary, NC

My first day a team lead told me morale at this location was very low. They were right. There is high turnover, passive aggressive coworkers, and unrealistic expectations. It's no wonder too, during the busier seasons there are often times two trucks worth of merchandise a day that workers are expected to come clean on by the end of the day.

Not to mention the laundry list of other daily tasks that need to be accomplished and constant help needed with online fulfillment orders. HR provide meals and snacks on occasion to show appreciation to workers, but fall short to work with real life issues.

A lot of complaints I hear in passing are directed towards management, higher management have lost temper on walkie before. Coworkers can be dodgy and selective to who they acknowledge and respond back to, but there are a few gems who work here. Guests are mostly nice.