John Lewis & Partners Reviews

Pros

Great benefits, colleagues and work ethic

Cons

None apart from working at weekends

Advice to Management

Keep doing what u r doing.

Pros

Partner led, employee owned, feeling of a family business, supportive and flexible working culture. People are generally very nice to work with: there is a real feeling of camaraderie.

Cons

Everyone has an opinion! Slow decision making process, the Partnership is not always as commercially astute as it should be.

Advice to Management

The IT/Technology & Change transformation has been going on for years and years... get on with it and complete it. This has been taking far too long. Don't make the mistake with the business transformation: do this and get it done quickly. The Partnership's future can't wait. Modernise now! And please stop going on and on about John Lewis and Waitrose separately all the time... from now on, things need to be Partnership first! And finally, there have been far too many senior management leadership changes: sort this out. Get the Partnership making a profit again, with proper bonuses for everyone.

Pros

Good Benefits and Good work-life balance. Flexible employer

Cons

Pay is not the best in the market

Pros

Colleagues and teams work together, very good culture.

Cons

Albeit not a con of the company as I can't think of any, retail in general is very strenuous.

Pros

Amazing benefits wide ranging everyday benefits from store discount to private hotels and a learning subsidy. They are also very supportive to flexible working.

Cons

Parental leave, maternity is 14 weeks full pay, paternity is 1 week full pay

Advice to Management

The culture and values aspired to are good but the reality doesn’t match up to this and this causes frustrations

Pros

Nice people & management

Cons

Nothing much, all was good

Pros

- Friendly colleagues - Great discounted food at the staff cafe

Cons

The breaks were quite short

Pros

As the title says, the work-life balance is phenomenal, working from home is as often as you need. They are also trying to innovate their systems too, which is great to see for a retailer.

Cons

There are some ...dinosaurs who are clearly just sat in their role for an extremely long time, and they do get a bit hostile when they feel their redundant role is not being taken as seriously by some newcomers like myself as they unnecessarily try to put blockers in place to make it look like their role is worth something. Essentially they have so much outdated business processes that are being kept because of certain veterans of the company would be out of a job if it was streamlined.