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The Container Store

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The Container Store reviews

3.2

43% would recommend to a friend

(1,962 total reviews)

Joel Bines

40% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

The Container Store has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,962 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The Container Store 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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2K reviews
1.0
Mar 12, 2016

DC......All shiny.......at first

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The interview process was interesting, full of lots of information needed pertaining to training, insurance information, PTO.

Cons

Once you're in, it's downhill from there. They train you for what they want you to do and do not train you for the many things that are available to do. Women are limited to either packing or pulling, no cutting of elfa products, no rider training, and only select few are allowed to be trained in manifesting. Once you are trained in what they want you to do, you do that same thing for 10 hours a day, day after day after day, sweatshop style. When orders are up, management still stands around with their hands in their pockets or hides out in the air conditioned offices while the ones that are actually out working are sweating their butts off in the non-climate controlled environment. The only time management speaks to you is when you make a mistake. A former co-worker told me they ranked #14 in the Fortune ratings and then less than a week after that announcement, they froze wages and quit matching 401k's indefinitely! They hand pick the employees to do the survey so no wonder they rank high, no doubt it's the corporate office people that do the survey.

3.0
Mar 9, 2016

Designer/Sales

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

nice group of people, great customers, great discount 50 off elfa, 40 off general merchandise.

Cons

Low pay for all that you are expected to do, not enough people on the floor and hours aren't consistent

2.0
Mar 7, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1/ good employee discount 2/ have made some great friends while working here 3/ my job here has forced me to go out of my comfort zone, which is a good thing

Cons

Where To Begin? OK, i know, lets start off with #1 1/ The Container Store just made Fortune Magazines Best places to Work List, for 17 years in a row. How ironic that that announcement was last week AND NOW, since business is so bad they are putting a freeze on pay increases and NOT contributing to our 401k's. Disgraceful that they do this right after the Fortune announcement. 2/ since going public this job has slowly declined 3/ too much micro managing 4/ Management always says PUSH PUSH PUSH for sales, as if I can get blood from a stone, while the full timers sit in the break room all day answering bloody emails? 5/ full timers are treated higher then part timers while some part timers know way more then full timers. A different set of Rules 6/ poor moral 7/ always doom and gloom, never enough praise 8/ its hard to sell TCS closets at $10,000 a pop more or less with all of the above going on

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