McDonald's reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(145,144 total reviews)
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Chris Kempczinski

71% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

McDonald's has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 145,144 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The McDonald's employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurantes y servicios de comidas industry (3.7 stars).

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145K reviews
5.0
Dec 19, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

+ Helping customers is genuinely satisfying and rewarding From my own experience, 85-90% of the customers I interact with are extremely polite, respectful, and well mannered. Helping them is a great feeling, and knowing that customers appreciate my hospitality also makes this a very rewarding position to have. + Probably the easiest and most relaxed positions to have at McD's! When it gets busy, it does get a little hectic behind the scenes, but that only happens for the Breakfast, lunch, and dinner rush hours. Otherwise, it's nice, slow, relaxed, and just the right of customers come it at a given time. You'll be refilling people's coffees, help taking their orders at the kiosks and ring them up at the register, chat with the elder regulars who have interesting stories to tell, clean some tablets, etc. It's physically not a hard job at all. Your feet get a little sore at the end of the day, but what on-your-feet job doesn't?

Cons

- You will often be in charge of filling other people's roles when no one else can, and you'll get flak for it Like most positions in McDonald's, you're trained a bit in all roles. Cooking, using the register, taking orders out, etc. With this specific position, you can be assigned to any of these when no one else is able to fulfill that role at the moment. Being in charge of other people's roles isn't the issue, it's when other coworkers who don't know you're assigned to that role temporarily that will get mad at you for doing it despite being told to. No one's manning the registers? You'll do that, and it's not a big deal. Someone else doesn't know you're using their register, they get mad for you not being where you should be even if you don't need to be there at the moment. It can get annoying explaining yourself constantly, but that's only a tiny tiny con about this position.

1.0
Dec 27, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- 50% off food - THAT'S THE ONLY PRO

Cons

- workload was HUGE. I mean HUGE. I was day staff and I was one of the only males working the day shift. The girls gave me a huge work load, they could not lift any heavy objects, they could not do outside work, it was unbearable. I now know why men receive more pay, generally speaking, in the economy. - My shifts consisted of taking the trash out, changing garbages, working the hot grill and deep dryers, organizing the skids, fridge and freezer. Now that I am looking back it was so idiotic for me to continue working there, the pay was nowhere near high enough for the work load that I was given. - Managers do not care about you or about delegating tasks equally among the crew members. - We were constantly short staffed because they could not find anyone dumb enough to work the day shift. - There were times when I was ALONE in the kitchen during daytime. Its okay to be alone in the kitchen during non-busy periods but not during the day. - I was basically FORCED to quit because of how exhausting the work was. I did not even give my two weeks notice, if they don't show me respect why should I show them any. - If you are a somewhat intelligent person you will find this job soul-crushing.

3.0
Aug 29, 2016

Director- level

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Enthusiastic, work-hard-play-hard culture, great experience for working within a large corporate organization and supporting a large, complex set of franchises. A strong desire to be innovative and meet the business challenges facing them. Most corporate employees are devoted to the company and there is a family feel. Strong ethics - I never witnessed a whiff of unethical behavior in my 5+ years there.

Cons

Because of it's passion for traditions, corporate management has trouble creating true change where it is needed. Also, while the family culture can be wonderful, relationships play too big a part with the franchisees' respect (or lack of) for their corporate counterparts. Those who "came up through the restaurants" are sometimes given preferential treatment and are put into positions for which they do not have the skills or talent. I found compensation to be low compared to other companies that hire for my area of expertise.

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