Great place to start a career, but don't stay too long... - Anonymous employee Target Employee Review

4.0
19 Aug 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Target is a great place to start a career. The company culture is supportive and because Target has so many resources the training is fantastic. It's a relatively safe environment to transition into the business world and learn about yourself. The people at Target are the best thing about the company and there are many ways to get involved with the Target community socially outside of work. I will keep many of the connections I made there for the rest of my career.

Cons

While the team-based culture is great for feeling connected and positive about your day-to-day, it creates a difficult environment for making effective business decisions. Politics seem to play a bigger part in key decisions than they should. There isn't that much autonomy as everything needs to be signed off on by 5 or 6 people and the result is generally a watered-down execution of a good idea.

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5.0
11 June 2026
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Pros

If you are looking for a job that you’ll be a part of a fun team environment, have the ability to learn all about customer “guest” service, retail operations and sales, as well as merchandising even at entry level great opportunity. for such a large corporation I have been pleasantly surprised by how tight knit teams are. applying was okay, there were multiple steps (videos, assessments) but overall not too bad)., phone call and then video questions before hiring.

Cons

Pay isn’t great, but for the market it’s fair. Moving up involves a much larger increase in responsibilities and workload relative to the pay increase.

5.0
31 Jan 2019
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Pros

- Management - Pay - Benefits - Personal development - Vacation time - Culture

Cons

Long hours but worthwhile work.

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