Research before accepting a corporate job offer from Petco - Anonymous employee Petco Employee Review

- Small layoff takes place every few months. I have only been here for 7 months but there were already two round of layoffs. About 2 - 3 roles eliminated from each team. - Leadership team wants things to happen overnight but the reality is that things are moving very slowly because the lack of communications and poor management in different teams. - Onboarding for new hires is so bad that it's like non-existence. That's the reason why new employees take longer to be familiar with the business and how their team operates. This is one of the reasons to cause second bullets. - There is no personal or career development at all. Petco does not have any programs to help employees enhance their skillsets. - might depend on the team leader, but for mine, there is no team building at all, there's only one 30 min meeting each week to talk about workload. Most of my coworkers work remotely, we barely talk to each other. When it comes to collaborative projects, it becomes a problem. Also another factor contribute to the second bullet. - benefits. All standard, nothing special. Maybe employee discount if you have pets. You merit and bonus depend on finance situation and everyone knows how Petco's finance situation is. Recently Petco just annouced to employees that there's no 6 month wait period to 401k matching. And their matching% is really low. The company thinks this is big news but the reality is that most companies don't have that waiting period and the matching% is a bit higher. No one really was excited about this. When you apply for corporate jobs at Petco, please do a thorough research of the company and the team you are about to get into.