Target reviews

- Extremely political environment - Not enough balance between men and women working there creates a very catty environment - Ladder climbers (and there are many) are ready and willing to step on your back to get where they want their career to be regardless of how that impacts everyone else - Very cliquey - Everyone is rated on their potential for promotion. One bad manager and you can forget your ability to be promoted there forever afterwards regardless of your history of success - HR guidelines for success are a joke - Lots of talk about being team members, but the team mentality is definitely not in place by management - Regardless of the many awards given for workplace environment, benefits to employees, and how awesome it is to work at Target as a working mother, don't believe the hype. Work/Life balance is not actively encouraged and benefits are dwindling. - Lots of glitz and glam are used to create a "Fast, Fun, Friendly" place to work however not as much effort is put into developing managers who are personally accountable to their teams - Too much feedback from managers about every last detail. Feedback is great, however it's not implemented effectively which just serves to break down team members and cause them to focus on their faults instead of their successes. - Managers constantly get awards for the work their teams do without giving any recognition to the people actually doing the work. This is highly demotivating and a morale buster. - 65% - 70% women and almost all the top leaders within the company are men. Why is that?

There were many promises made to me about interviewing for the next level position. Although I w didn't make it in the first try, I was promised another shot in 2 months. When that time came around, I was told I couldn't interview again. I was told to interview for a few other lower level positions, that were not of any interest to me. Finally, I made the decision to leave when my yearly review was unfairly weighted to 1 month of weak performance over 11 months of strong performance