John Lewis & Partners reviews

The business is very conservative and is scared to radically modernise for fear of upsetting older customers, unfortunately this means that the younger customer is not being attracted which long term will have an impact on sales. Working full time you will be expected to work long hours. Sometimes people employed into management positions aren't the correct people for the job. Section Manager workload is so high that you won't complete everything in your working day, expect to go in on your days off or take your work home with you. Section Mangers are underpaid and overworked, unless on the graduate scheme where salary is significantly improved. Jobs above level 8 (Section Manager) are fiercely competitive, it is rare these jobs become available so progression is usually slow. Don't believe the quoted time of 5 years to steering group (equivalent to assistant head of branch).

a happy worker is the best worker and the majority of the people I work with are unhappy they only stay because of the free cash they get in march every year (dangling a carrot) bad it system, no fairness across the whole site , some management don't deserve to be managers as they only got where they are because of their face fits you have more experienced and better mannered partners or staff as some partners have been told on the warehouse floor, the so called managers think they are better than everyone else but they do not respect or show any gratitude to the actual partners that do the work I personally think that the company could save a load of money but not having as many managers as they have got