Very rewarding - Anonymous employee PetSmart Employee Review

4.0
16 June 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-working with animals all day -dress code is not strict you can have tattoos, piercings, and wildly colored hair -2 weeks vacation right off the bat -affordable health care without a three month waiting period -petsmart offers rewards to salon associates dependent on how long you have worked inside the salon as a stylist. You can get shears clippers and blades for free. -very strict pet safety rules to ensure no animal is injured or falls ill.

Cons

-hardly any room for advancement -raises are few and far between

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PetSmart Response
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Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review. That's wonderful to hear how much you enjoy PetSmart. Ensuring a positive environment for pets, pet parents and associates is incredibly important to us, and I'm so pleased to hear that's been your experience. We also appreciate you sharing where you feel we can improve and will take this feedback into consideration. Thank you, again!

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