Sur La Table reviews

3.1

40% would recommend to a friend

(1,059 total reviews)

Jason Goldberger

41% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

Sur La Table has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,059 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sur La Table 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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1K reviews
3.0
Jul 15, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fun and inspiring environment especially if you love to cook!

Cons

Good discount is the only benefit available unless you are Store Manager/Asst Manager

2.0
Jul 15, 2015

Too Stressful

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Employee discount was good for most items, especially if you like your kitchen gadgets. Starting pay was decent for a retail job. Some of the other sales associates were nice to talk to and work with.

Cons

Management pitted employees against each other by handing down unrealistic sales goals, fostering a subtly hostile work environment. Ringing up a sale was tedious because you had to figure out which sales associate to attribute each product to and key it in manually to tally up sales figures. If you made a mistake, there was no way to go back and attribute the sale to the correct employee. For example, because the register defaults to the person who is ringing up the sale, I accidentally rang up a $400 coffee machine under my own number because I forgot to key in the number of the employee who had helped the customer on the sales floor. Management changed work schedules after the schedule had been posted without telling employees whose hours had been changed, then acted surprised when you showed up to work but "weren't on the schedule." Having over 10,000 items in-store might sound great, but in actuality, how can a part-time employee have a prayer of knowing about even a fraction of them, let alone being able to locate them on the sales floor? Poor product training.

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