Target reviews

- Hired on after seasonal, but felt stagnant. Unless you can devote full time hours, and they're available, and there's a position, it seemed like there wasn't much room to move beyond a very basic role. I think that is inherent in the position, and there isn't much that can be done about it due to company size. It's just slightly disappointing to be limited in a way that you might not be at a smaller company - Honestly, all retail needs to be at a minimum of fifteen dollars per hour. Everything does. So I support Target's decision to raise their minimum wage to $12 until they phase in their higher wages, reportedly due in 2020. But this is physically laborious work. I was walking more than 18k steps in an 8 hour shift. Others were standing in one place for that amount of time. Regardless of your job, it is demanding, and even twelve or fifteen dollars an hour is low for a company that makes the amount of money that Target makes. Again, this isn't something that is likely to change, as they've only just started to work toward implementing what might be considered a living wage in 2020.

I worked for Target from their Bangalore office. I had a chance of working with leaders at multiple levels, including the CIO. I had stints both in US and in India. The Indian office is given step childly treatment. They have no clear say. Most of the “leaders” are busy feeding on the leftovers from their US counterparts. Most of the engineers are from services background and seriously lacking in their skills. Any good work done by engineers in Indian office gets stolen by US teams. The company is bloated with flab across all levels. The US offices are filled with mediocre engineers, who are happy learning languages and frameworks at company’s expense. The company has no real chance in fighting competitors and will die sooner, rather than later.