Challenging and rewarding leadership experience, tightly controlled (rigid) culture. - Store Team Leader Target Employee Review

4.0
Sep 21, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Target is committed to becoming the Best Company Ever and to treating Team Members at all levels with fairness and respect. Target is also committed to continuous improvement in its merchandise assortment, operations and in attracting and developing a world class team.

Cons

Target's culture is very tightly controlled and its expectations of leaders often minimizes the essential role of teaching core business skills to newer members of store leadership teams. An unspoken belief is that due to Target's legendary sytems and technologies, leading a Target store team and an excellent store operation is simply a matter of following instructions. Leadership doesn't always 'walk the talk' when it comes to development. As a store team leader, you are rightly accountable for the development and promotion of executives and evaluated based on the feedback you provide them. As a store team leader, unless you are viewed as a 'problem performer' or 'high potential' - you may not receive any substantive developmental feedback.

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5.0
Jun 11, 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
Jan 31, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

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

Cons

Long hours but worthwhile work.

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