Zara Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Zara full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Opportunity for growth if you work hard

Many women in corporate positions is a major plus at Zara

Many great coworkers

 Trips for full time staff (to work and meet at other stores)

Business trips for full time staff!

Never a dull moment/ Always busy

Hard work pays off if you have the right management

Great benefits if you are full time

PTO, Holidays

Great vacation benefits!

Decent pay

A great company to work for if you love the latest fashion trends

Fun new collections every few weeks. One of the only great stores in Tampa

Cons – I would have liked to see more staff stick around, but that's retail.
The hours are those of retail always a different schedule

Advice to Senior Management – No comment at this time

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

Current Employee – been working at Zara full-time for more than a year

Pros – Training
Opportunity for promotion
Fast paced and use environment
Good place to make friends
Learn a wide range of retail skills

Cons – Poor staff discount, even for managers who must wear the product (15%)
Lack of work/life balance
Rosters change on a weekly basis
Lack of positivity in the work place
Management is intimidating and treats staff with little to no respect
Favouritism shown to certain staff members
Opportunities given only to those who are favoured
Lack of appreciation of highperforming staff members which leads to a high turnover of staff
Lack of flexibility in workplace
Senior management bully lower level management
Unspoken requirement to perform work duties out of working hours
Pressure from management to skip days off at busy times (sale, stocktake) with the "promise" of
 getting the time in lieu back
Poor pay relative to the amount of work put in. Different employees are paid different amounts depending on how well they negotiate with HR

Advice to Senior Management – As above. Appreciate staff, treat them fairly and kindly and in turn you will have a lower staff turnover.

Former Employee – worked at Zara

Pros – -Teaches you how to multitask and work effectively in a busy environment
-Never a dull moment
-opportunity of career growth.

Cons – -Understaffed yet HR is unwilling to try and persuade staff to stay so the majority of skilled employees leave.
-Employees are treated as disposable.
-Hierarchy style of running store only created tension between employees.
-Trading Hours are unreasonable and management mistreat employees on a regular basis.
-Alot of penny pinching towards employees- no christmas party despite posting record profits every year.

Advice to Senior Management – While Zara grows at an alarming rate they should realize that they can not just have a revolving door style of hiring staff like many other retail companies and while growing as a brand is great, they should remember many times before that many companies before it have grown and become over inflated and then eventually devalued at an alarming rate.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Zara

Pros – Good friendly work enviornment at Zara

Cons – no cons as it is a good place

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

Former Employee – worked at Zara part-time for more than a year

Pros – -Fun Co-workers
-Great atmosphere if you're into fashion
-Position allows for you to be creative in engaging with customers which makes it fun

Cons – -Standing around all day
-Hard to get breaks at a scheduled time
-Employee discount is basically nonexistent (covers tax percentage)

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

Current Employee – been working at Zara

Pros – Best pay in retail
Good quality product

Cons – Long hours - You do at least 5- 60 hours a week
High expectations

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Zara part-time for more than a year

Pros – * Great coworkers.
* New items every week.
* Decent hours.

Cons – * Favoritism.
* No work/life balance.
* Not enough pay for all of the work.

Advice to Senior Management – Interact with your employees more often.

Current Employee – been working at Zara full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Fashion forward. Good benefits for salary employees.

Cons – Employee discount. Pay raise. Unprofessional.

Advice to Senior Management – Communication is the key.

Former Employee – worked at Zara full-time for more than a year

Pros – Learn how to manage a large staff
Develops your management and planning skills

Cons – Extremely long hours.
Poor recruiting process.

Advice to Senior Management – A more flexible and fair schedule for the store managers. Employees also have a personal life.

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

Former Employee – worked at Zara part-time for more than a year

Pros – -Nice store
-Flexible hours
-I worked at Men's department at Michigan avenue and I loved it!

Cons – -It gets really busy since it is a very touristic area so weekends are crazy
-The discount you get in the store is just 15%

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend