Sam's Club reviews

3.3

51% would recommend to a friend

(12,902 total reviews)
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Latriece Watkins

63% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Sam's Club has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 12,902 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sam's Club 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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13K reviews
4.0
Jan 31, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great growth potential if you are willing to work hard and want to learn. Everything is earned. Great relationships built with peers and within the local communities that you work.

Cons

Culture of the company is becoming blurred the further they expand and the further they get away from Mr. Sams teachings.

4.0
Jan 28, 2013

good

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

lots of room to grow... could make 6 figures as a club mgmt

Cons

retail so can be vary boring

2.0
Jan 27, 2013

Crappy Company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Starting pay is above what you would make at other retail companies. - Free membership card. - Yearly profit sharing if your store does well in sales. - Very easy to advance into management - An OK job for people only looking to work a few hours a week.

Cons

This is a Wal-Mart company so you'd be a fool to think anything positive about this company. - In order to help the company meet its sales goal, associates are pressured (almost forced) into becoming a Plus member and signing up for a Sam's Club credit card. -Associates are poorly trained. You spend your first day or two on the job stuck in front of a computer learning about the company and the basics of your job title. - Unless you're a full time associate, you're going to need a second job. Part time associates work between 8-25 hours a week. Of course you need a second source of income if those are your weekly hours; however, Sam's Club frowns upon having a second job. They want you to have open availability so you can work when they need you. If you get a second job, there is a strong possibility that you will be cut from the schedule. The same applies to college students as well. Because of this, half of the associates here depend on government benefits to survive - Very easy to move up in management with little education/training. This lead to having supervisors/managers who are incompetent (bad attitudes, poor communication skills, horrible people skills, completely clueless as to whats going on/what they're doing). - You're constantly reminded that you're replacable. "Unemployment is high! There are plenty of people who need a job," is the main thing you hear out of management's mouth. - The is a ton of favoritism. Associates who are in a clique with the right supervisors or managers can get a slap on the wrist for doing something that could cost an associate outside of the clique his/her job. -

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