Currys reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(5,403 total reviews)
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Alex Baldock

81% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Currys has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 5,403 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Currys employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Commerce de détail et de gros industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Dec 14, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Good social bunch of staff in spite of all odds they work generally hard.

Cons

Unfortunately Currys / PC world appear to take advantage of their staff by offering the minimum basic wage. Hours are staggered but an average would be around 10am-6pm, there is only ONE break for just half an hour at lunch. Staff starting work at 11.00am to 4pm on Sundays get no official mini break for a quick Sunday snack or even coffee. Because of the working conditions assistants are usually young, Teens to mid 20's , sadly the staff are without doubt taken advantage of by a rather greedy company who offer very little in financial incentives and expect a level of high level commitment! 1, Often doors are kept open all day long in winter leaving the cashier literally shivering and uncomfortable. 2, Boxing days are a working requirement with the minimum salary being implemented. 3, Staff Toilets have been known to be without soap for over a week. 4, There is a paranoia of staff theft, each time a staff member leaves the shop they are searched with a metal detector and asked to empty out pockets Etc, often in front of customers, it feels degrading and in many ways insulting. IF this has to happen then a private area should be provided we don't live in Dicken's time It's sad to see young people treated in such a shabby way.

2.0
Dec 8, 2014

Leaving After A Year

Recommend
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Pros

Great colleagues, some OK benifits such as EE discount etc., most people know what they are talking about (in my store anyway).

Cons

Managers put you on a low hour contract then have you working loads of hours which you cant do! Pay is supposed to inscrese from minimum wage to more with training but the issue is you can never get on training to get a very small pay inscrese. No comission either, you are selling loads of extras and hitting targets every month and yet you get nothing extra to show for it. Internal benifits system is used to congratulate colleagues who have started to perform better when they were under performing but doesnt give anything to colleagues who constantly hit or exceed their targets. Constant battles with people to get them to take things they dont always need just because the company says that a certain number of them should need it. Whole internal systems need a rehaul, everything is seperate and mashed togeather. Buisness sales are stupidly complicated to learn with an old outated system, the hardware for the tills isnt much better. More customers could be served a lot faster if the tills were updated. People think your on comission and thus think you want to sell them everything for your own good! Customer service is NOT at the front of their buisness. Once a customer has given the money over the after sales service can be shocking. Managers care more about people who are into to buy again rather than people who bought yesterday meaning that the customer than gets annoyed with you when you have asked your manager to allow you to help them. Very stressful job even though it is only selling items to customers who want to buy them. Customers always ask for disocunt, thinking that they are in an old dogy electrical retailer who has inflated prices when you cant discount things for them, some people act as if you wont try to give them the lowest price possible, which you will as we dont get anything from it!

2.0
Dec 6, 2014

Could do better

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

it was good whilst there weren't any alternatives. Perks of discounts on mobile phones and talk talk

Cons

bit of call centre mentality. Disengaged management. Lack of ownership to resolve long standing issues

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