Giant Tiger Reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(581 total reviews)

Thomas Haig

67% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Giant Tiger has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 581 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Giant Tiger employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
5 May 2024

Going Downhill

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Pros

I no longer work there.

Cons

GT, once renowned for its great culture, has spiraled into toxicity under new leadership. The CEO's questionable decisions, including consecutive years of massive layoffs, lacked foresight. This shortsighted approach not only undermined morale but also led to a significant loss of expertise within the company. Furthermore, communication was abysmal at all levels. Constant restructuring left both head office and store-level employees clueless about the company's direction. Overall, the disregard for the well-being of employees and the lack of transparent communication made my experience at the company deeply disappointing.

1.0
5 Apr 2024
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Pros

It is a canadian company. If you like free cheap cupcakes every 3 months or so, you will love it here. If you are incompetent but have social skills and are manipulative, you will probably strive here and maybe even get a promotion to lead or manage others.

Cons

Really bad managers. A lot of incompetent and power-hungry people in lead roles. Pay is terrible. Impossible to get a decent raise, they don't even give raises that equal the rise of living costs so it's like getting lower pay every year. Only the people at the top make good salaries and it's obscene amount of money. A few people make 350k+ and most are around 45k. Managers treat employees badly and hr does absolutely nothing to provide a safe and healthy work environment for employees, hr even protects managers who bully employees. I've seen many people on burnout leave, people bullied into medical leave, and I've seen so many people crying in restrooms because of workplace abuse and having no support. HR say they build work cases but it's a lie, they have years of data from multiple people and still do nothing and keep bullies in leading roles. A lot of ego and argumenting during meetings from people in competition. Culture of pushing others down and not allowing them to grow and go up. Heard managers brag about keeping lower employees in their place. People will throw one another under the bus when sales are bad. Constant restructuring, no vision management wise, it's like no one at GT knows how to run a company and treat people decently. During restructures they keep people in the dark and then make announcements of changes afterhours while people need to leave to go pick-up their kids, the restructures are poorly done. No transparency whatsoever. When restructures are done, they will often entirely change the role of someone and force them into a trade they have never consented to do when signing their initial hiring contract. Some people are forced to move and move their families when assigned a new role, without even a conversation or a warning. They don't care about people and they don't care about consent. Unecessary stressful environment. Too many meetings that feel like they are done just so managers feel important or can argue with one another. There is zero coverage if you fall ill or burnout, you're on your own. Hr and management are extremely manipulative and treat people like they are worthless and replaceable. Total lack of vision and leadership. People who are really competent in their field and have good ideas are systematically pushed down and excluded, they're often moved to other positions into a smaller role just to be silenced. Managers are insecure and feel belittled by anyone who is more competent than them and that's most people. They say they promote working remotely as an advantage but in reality managers pressure employees to work at ho, they guilt-trip and treat employees that work remotely like second class employees even when they are more effective. Individuality and diversity is definitely not something that is valued. I've seen managers force employees to work on week-ends and on holidays like christmas day when they were scheduled to be off. There is no respect for people and there is no worklife balance even though everyone pretends it is priority. The place is a revolving door. Instead of promoting people from within, people who know the company, those in lead positions hire their buddies who have no knowledge of the company or market. Salaries are completely unfairly given, sometimes newbies with no experience will have a better salary than a person who has been there for 10 years and does the job better, it makes no sense. People take credit for other people's work and steal ideas - no collaboration or vision of building things up together, it's a dog-eat-dog culture of insecure people who lack the skills to be in the role that they are in. This is not a good company to work at.

1.0
18 June 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Canadian Owned Work from home flexibility for some teams The company does try to keep employees informed Good response to covid Good checks and balances on vendors that work with GT.

Cons

Minimal pay for a lot of work, GT is a larger company but seemingly built on a poor foundation. Most teams have decent turn over costing the company more than if they would just pay a fair salary. We have several people on my team currently interviewing outside GT over the low pay and lack of leadership. There is a critical lack of leadership in the company lots of managers puffing up and micro managing, not many stepping up to lead and grow the company in the right way. Managers are willing to help with the work overload but as long as its a task they would like to do if not you will be on your own. I wouldn't recommend this company to anyone I know in good faith. You will work for a silly salary and end up putting in a ton of extra time on top if that. If you want to feel valued, respected, and treated fair I would look for a different company.

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