Burger King reviews

3.5

68% would recommend to a friend

(9,841 total reviews)

Alexandre Simon

76% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Burger King has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 9,841 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Burger King employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restauration industry (3.4 stars).

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10K reviews
2.0
May 7, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Miami is a beautiful, unique city - Given a lot of responsibility at the analyst level - Exposure to upper management and senior leadership team - Management Trainee Program has a lot of young, recent graduates. Great for meeting people your age if you're moving to Miami and don't know anyone there

Cons

- IF YOU READ ANYTHING READ THIS. Out of the 34 Management Trainees who started in June 2012, eleven months later only 20 of them are still with Burger King! 6 got let go immediately after the rotations, 6 quit over the course of the 11 months, 1 got outsourced, 1 got laid off later on. - As others have remarked, there is a constant fear of getting fired or laid off. Even 2-3 years after 3G took over, lay-offs happen every couple months or so (includes upper management, recent MBA hires, etc.). Can happen to anyone. - Management Trainees have close to ZERO say of which department they will rotate through and where they will permanently be placed. In fact, a majority will get placed in "Global Business Services", which is another word for their processing center. - Technology and quantitative analysis is archaic, and all done through Excel sheets. Way behind other competitors, and surprising given how large a company BK is. - Expected* to work 60+ hrs. per week. Even if you have nothing to do, leaving before 7pm in certain departments will get you stares and the assumption you are not doing work.

2.0
Jan 17, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

*Miami is a beautiful city to live in, HQ very close to the airport *Peers your own age, lots of young people straight out of college

Cons

*Very demanding culture, zero tolerance policy for making mistakes *Long hours, most people work an average of 60 hours a week *Mediocre pay, benefits keep getting cut *Extremely high turnover rate, people are fired on a regular basis, others get fed up and quit *You are promised upward mobility/quick promotions, in reality, once the directors and managers get fired, analysts then take on their work to cut cost *Lacks high-level quantitative analysis in all areas/functions, current methods are inadequate

1.0
Mar 24, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A salary during desperate times. If you are Brazilian you will succeed here.

Cons

First things first, everything they tell you during the interview process is a lie. Everyone is completely expendable from the top down and the company functions like a bunch of rats in a cage. "Rapid growth opportunities" is solely the function of consistent 'mass layoffs' and resignations of the top people. The corporate employment model has become the same model used in the restaurants (underpay, over-work, non specialized skills, create monotonous & meaningless tasks, etc) . The Management Trainee program is where the majority of new hires comes from. Y'all just beware and always keep your resume up-to-date. They will treat you mildly better than everyone else, but the program works much like a cult where they use group pressures and brainwashing to simultaneously make you believe you are there to be major contributors to the company while at the same time The threat of firing will always loom and you will be pitted against each other. If you are looking for an edgy collaborative environment , this is not it. Absolutely everything is about the bottom line. Office supplies are no longer provided, everyone must bring from home.

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