Canadian Tire Reviews

I worked at Canadian Tire full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Co-workers were nice
A lot of young fun workers with great ideas
Learned a lot about business and marketing

Cons – -No work life balance, for a pay of 45K you were expected to work crazy amount of hours and always be on your email. Your work is your life there.
-The managers are always pushing for more ideas and "great" work but when it comes to review time there was always an excuse why you wouldn't get that excellent review or that promotion. It seemed like we had to fight for a great review and it was never offered no matter what.
-Most managers lack leadership skills, most of these managers got to where they are by who can suck up to who.
-They do not take managers lack of respect seriously-even though they have the code of conduct on no bullying, the amount of bullying that goes on in that place was disgusting. You really need a thick skin to work in this environment.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Canadian Tire full-time

Pros – - Work Life Balance was decent
- Management support for personal development.

Cons – - Culture was very limiting to move project fast and efficient.
- Too many meetings that were a waste of time - due to everyone wanting consensus on small decisions.
- Too much politics among employees who have been there long, not quick to adapt to change.
- New hires from fast paced environments get backlash and receive a difficult time from existing employees.
- Not an Agile project environment and projects take too long to implement.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to make the culture shift to Agile , Adaptive and Entrepreneur spirit if CanTire is to stay competitive in the market place. Support change and ideas from new employees. Stephen Wetmore coming from a Telecom background, understands fast to market and staying competitive however, it seems this process is taking long and there to be more mid- senior leadership with the entrepreneur mind set and willing to embrace change.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Canadian Tire full-time

Pros – Interesting work; dynamic brand; lots of excitement around future of company; feels good to think you can make a difference to the staying power of such an iconic Canadian brand. I would recommend this place to a friend as long as they had an understanding of what they were in for. It is good experience to have on your resume in the end.

Cons – Very bureaucratic; if you want to stay in the same field it's difficult to move up the ranks; pay is nothing to write home about.

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of bureaucracy; fix antiquated internal processes; employees have great ideas but the obstacles to making them happen are many!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Canadian Tire part-time

Pros – well i like to work there becuase all the employment are nice

Cons – the payment it is a littli bit bubu

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Canadian Tire

Pros – free tires for life! who could aregue with that@

Cons – have to weat a name tag

Advice to Senior Management – keep on trucks

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Canadian Tire full-time for more than a year

Pros – CTC is in the process of undergoing radical changes to their IT environment. They currently believe that "AGILE" methodology is the magic bullet to fix all their project management and store deployments. The 90 year old company is trying to be too much and should stick to it's core values.........SELLING GOODS

Cons – Poor mid-manager leadership, too much bureaucacy that creates massive bottlenecks, too much "power" has been given to the dealer network to make key decisions to the point whereby the dealers run the corporation not the other way around. There is massive cost leakage that ultimately contribute to a lower bottom line for CTR respectively. If it weren't for the various acquisitions CTC would post negative growth, FGL group and Marks are the only lines of business that are making money, CTR is struggling. Once you are in your position there is very limited opportunity to move up and progress your career goals. CTC proclaims to have a sincere concern for employee development and career growth, but in actuality once the employee is hired and "on the job" all that goes out the window.

Advice to Senior Management – Streamline, package out dead wood and long time employees, re-focus on what made CT successful and don't try to play in a sandbox that doesn't suit the brand. Give up on the ideaology that AGILE will be a "one size fits all" solution.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Canadian Tire part-time for more than a year

Pros – - paid training (up to a certain amount of online courses)
- supportive great supervisors/management
- recognition of employees in newsletters

Cons – - if you're in a specialized department like hardware, it really helps to have DIY knowledge, online courses can only do so much
- AS400 program can be a pain to use sometimes as search queries may not find what you want
- Online website can also be a pain to use as it may be hard to find what the customer is looking for , may be better off with Google search

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Canadian Tire part-time for more than a year

Pros – Most of the staff is friendly

Cons – Customers aren't as patient/understanding when shopping at Canadian Tire (compared to other stores)
Low wages
Low hours
Disrespect from management (often)

Advice to Senior Management – Hire more staff, and extend work hours for those who need it. Instead of scheduling an employee for ten 5hr days in a row, give them longer hours over a span of less days. If an employee works part time hours, yet nearly every day, it starts to seem like a waste of time.
Instead of going through a quickly moving cycyle of employees, pay employees more so they will stay with the company. Also, check up on how your employees are being treated by management. Negative experiences are what gets rid of the worker bees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Canadian Tire part-time for less than a year

Pros – Quick and efficient training. Great learning experience. Managers give clear instructions. When store is slow, the job is very chill.

Cons – Issues with not being paid for working extra. Demanding job, especially at busy locations. Dangerous work environment depending on your department. Bad benefits.

Advice to Senior Management – Think a bit less about the profits and more about your employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Canadian Tire part-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Fair hours, balanced work week, structured departments. Felt like I was part of a team, rather than a number to be ignored. I also appreciated the effort management took to ensure every employee received a fair shake when it came to hours, scheduling, time off and fair division of work responsibilities.

Cons – Wages are not very high, but for a retail position, it would be crazy to expect much more than minimum wage. Very exhausting working in the back unloading trucks - but a good workout!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company