Great Company, Poor Higher Management
Great Company, Poor Higher Management
Target offers pretty good benefits for you and your family. The starting pay for single graduating college students is quite nice. Stores are always kept very clean and neat. Their leadership expectations for ETL's, STL's, and so on are well thought out. The "Fast, Fun and Friendly" attitude is a good standard to work by.
Absolutely terrible hours, not worth the salary. If you have a poor-performing team, you have to coach (manage) them out and create a new one. Basically, if you don't do something correctly, you will be coached and fired. As an ETL, you are expected to do everything while your STL, ETL-HR, and ETL-AP sit in their offices and do nothing all day. You're always having to call people in to cover call-offs. For a new manager coming out of college, Target's six-week training program is a joke. Whether someone is successful or not completely depends on whether the store is green or red, and also if you have a good STL.
Make pay worthwhile for overworked ETLs. Please stop stretching people so thin. For one ETL to have to manage three or four different work centers is ridiculous. Stop making payroll so stingy and give stores the hours they need to operate.
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ETL Hardlines
Three rounds of interviews: two phone interviews and one in-person interview. They asked behavioral interview questions, such as how you work with a team or to understand your personality. Very friendly HR team.
ETL
For most people, it was a long and tedious process. For others, it was a matter of weeks. For me, it was about 2 months total. There were several rounds of interviews. One interview had several interviewers. The final interview was with the distric
Front End Manager
Standard experience-based interview. I was invited to meet with two managers. Each used the same questions, and I was then sent out for a drug test. Upon completion of the test, I was offered the position and scheduled for training and orientation.
ETL Hardlines
Naperville, Illinois, United StatesJanuary 1, 2015Three rounds of interviews: two phone interviews and one in-person interview. They asked behavioral interview questions, such as how you work with a team or to understand your personality. Very friendly HR team.
ETL
Akron, Ohio, United StatesNovember 1, 2010For most people, it was a long and tedious process. For others, it was a matter of weeks. For me, it was about 2 months total. There were several rounds of interviews. One interview had several interviewers. The final interview was with the distric
Front End Manager
Aurora, Ohio, United StatesNovember 1, 2011Standard experience-based interview. I was invited to meet with two managers. Each used the same questions, and I was then sent out for a drug test. Upon completion of the test, I was offered the position and scheduled for training and orientation.
