Trader Joe's Careers and Employment

Change the pass or fail raise. Give your better crew members a chance to make more money. Otherwise your rewarding everybody the same. Let’s be real. It shouldn’t be like that.

The worst. Shifts start as early as 4AM or if you are participating in a remerchandising of the store you will have to do it on an overnight shift. If you want to advance within the company this is a requirement. Also though you may be scheduled only until 12am you are expected to stay if the work isn't complete. This happens often as crew often calls in sick and stored are understaffed to save money to begin with. It's not as fun as they make it out to be.

Haha of course not. That’s why we can manage to keep so many “weird” and awesome crew members. They want people to be themselves.

Almost 800 hours in 6 months.

Yes, we do get discounts

Yes and they were always great. However, I'm not sure how they are now with the current healthcare situation.

Hard works pays off

1st Interview was held outdoors, on a bench, in front of Starbucks. The new TJ's is being built. The captain said hello and observed, his two "mates" conducted the initial interview. Why do you want to work here? How do you deal with stress? What qualities would make you a good fit for Trader Joe's? Lasted an hour, bees crawling all over the table and us all. Do you have any questions for us? Standard stuff.

It used to be that you could just walk in for them to apparently view your personality and get an on the spot interview but, I found out this method is a hit or miss because, if the interviewer is bias or just plain nasty, than you won't move on even if your qualified and have a great personality. Therefore, I recommend having them do the work and applying online through the trader Joe website or applying directly if they post job on job boards. Therefore, the store will contact your directly if interested instead of you having to chase after them since you have no idea what type of openings they currently have, but if they contact you than you can assume there are open positions to fill.

The worst. Shifts start as early as 4AM or if you are participating in a remerchandising of the store you will have to do it on an overnight shift. If you want to advance within the company this is a requirement. Also though you may be scheduled only until 12am you are expected to stay if the work isn't complete. This happens often as crew often calls in sick and stored are understaffed to save money to begin with. It's not as fun as they make it out to be.

Extremely! You can work one day a month, or 5 days a week, you choose!

Usually they ask you when you can start working. Some people start a week after they get hired some choose to start right away. I asked to start right away and was put on the schedule 2 days after.