Dollar General reviews

2.6

29% would recommend to a friend

(15,908 total reviews)
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Todd Vasos

31% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

Dollar General has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 15,908 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Dollar General employee rating is 26% below average for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Mar 29, 2015

RUN AWAY!!!

Recommend
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Pros

Pay is good for people with no education that promote from within, but for individuals with degrees pay is mediocre. Turnover is high, so you get to meet a lot of new people.

Cons

Senior Leadership and Human Resources is unprofessional, rude, and lack caring of all employees at all levels. They try to throw money and gifts at employees to make the employees like them. This just leads to entitled employees that still do not like or care about their jobs. Senior Leadership makes too many unnecessary changes and does not appropriately communicate with supervisors about the change so that the supervisors can explain the reason for the change appropriately. Human Resources is unprofessional, unhelpful, and rude. When hired, you are told you will work 40-45 hours a week, and you actually work 50-60 hours a week, and are forced to go to "Team Building" activities on the weekends and pretend to have fun.

3.0
Jan 15, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

If you don't have any experience, it's a decent place to start out, and it's pretty easy to get hired there.

Cons

The turnover rate is high, which speaks volumes about employee satisfaction, so you're likely to be working with new people and being asked to cover missed shifts often. Pay was minimum wage as a sales associate, and I wouldn't say it was good pay at salaried positions either because managers have to work far too many hours to make the hourly rate worthwhile.

5.0
Apr 14, 2014

Good

Recommend
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Pros

Working with the employees.Fast pace always something to do.You move up very quickly I've been with the company less than 1 year started 3rd key 3 months went to aast mgr 10 months smc.hope to have my own store soon.If you don't mind hard work and have a lot of patience this is the place for you.

Cons

Paying good employees a little more money so they would stay.More time for training.Not listening to all the empolyees just the managers.

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