Decathlon reviews

3.9

81% would recommend to a friend

(3,215 total reviews)
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Javier López

66% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Decathlon has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,215 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Decathlon employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Vendita al dettaglio e all'ingrosso industry (3.4 stars).

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3K reviews
3.0
Mar 29, 2019

Ridiculous management

Recommend
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Pros

Not much stress. Quite free, you can choose your days off and preferred shifts. Lots of holidays. Work life balance is the only good thing about this job

Cons

Management sucks. They don't give a duck to employees and sack people arbitrarily. The CEO said "if you are not happy, just leave." The company's policies are ridiculous. They allow customers to return or exchange products, even used or broken, within a year but staff can't even take defective or returned products for testing. They would rather throw them away instead of giving them to you. On one hand, they require you to meet sales target. On the other hand, they even allow commercial organizations to get refund by returning a bunch of used products. I have been working here for more than 1 year and a half but still haven't received pay rise. Worse still, they changed the bonus system to their advantage, which is an indirect pay cut. Every year they try to persuade you to take on more duties without giving you corresponding reward.

1.0
May 26, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Fancy Designations , good opportunity for students from not so good colleges

Cons

Slavery nothing else ! No training , No job security ,No fans (Forget Acs) , No Chairs(Stand and work for 12 hrs),No Public or company provided conveyance , the warehouse was on the outskirts of the city , Shift change on daily basis , No knowledge transfer , suggestions not welcomed , do what the french/spaniards say without opening your mouth ,they take cost cutting to the next level If you love yourself and your career do not work for this company !

2.0
Feb 18, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

-Lots of responsibility very early on in your career. Fantastic stepping stone to move on to better companies and further opportunities. -Some good working relationships harboured more out of dealing with adversity. -Some very good store sports advisors that are enjoyable to work with. -Ability to recruit and develop own team . -Ability to make decisions that heavily influence the performance of the store and department. -Work with a great variety of sports products.

Cons

-No Development plan , the 'graduate scheme' is not in any way a graduate scheme as there is no plan in place for you. This is simply a graduate job. -You never hear about promotional opportunities until the positions are given away, it is not a meritocracy and instead is about who you know rather than what you know. Align this to the fact that only 2-3 Assistant store managers become available every year promotional opportunities becoming very sparse. -It is a very disorganised company with very bad communication, you will find you are constantly solving the problems created by the people in head office and not communicated. - The new price drop system has resulted in more pressure being put on staff and management to deal with more quantities and to be more productive. So there is a heavy reliance on managers to do everything on their departments; this means stocking shelves, tidying hundreds of thousands of products constantly and completing daily tasks. This leaves very little time to complete the jobs we are hired for such as merchandising, recruitment , staff development and overall commercial functionality. -The bonus scheme is very often unattainable. -The staff discount is low at 20% and only on products at full price. -Pay is very poor in relation to the responsibility that you hold. I have managed multi million pound departments to growth and in three years have had no pay increase above the £18000 basic starting salary. -Work life balance is non existent and working Saturdays is compulsory. You must work 45+ hours a week minimum. They say they want active sporty people then give you no time to be active and sporty.

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