Primark reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(12,186 total reviews)
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Eoin Tonge

61% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Primark has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 12,186 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Primark employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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12K reviews
3.0
May 26, 2016

Retail Assistant

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great staff team and all are helpful

Cons

Hard work, lots of overdrafts

1.0
May 24, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- People were easy enough to get on with - Short shifts (suited me as a student)

Cons

- Lack of opportunities for progression within company (for example, I'd been working there a year but someone else got promoted after working there for three weeks) - Rude, disrespectful customers - Incredibly disrespectful store manager, one of the worst and most unprofessional people I've worked under - No uniform allowance - Unhealthy/Unsafe working temperatures in store - Barely above minimum wage - No benefits - Advertisements about welfare programmes for struggling employees (i.e pay them a living wage) - Exceptionally high turnover of staff - Denial of overtime because there's too many people who need it - Company politics and practices

2.0
May 24, 2016

Employment Purgatory

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There's lots of overtime, work hard and good chance of progression, decent amount of holidays, made some friends for life

Cons

Underpaid for over a year, wrong holiday pay, disrespectful and unprofessional management, colleagues can have personality clashes leading to unfavourable experiences at work

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