Brakes reviews

2.9

40% would recommend to a friend

(513 total reviews)

Kevin Hourican

Not enough data to show CEO approval

34% positive business outlook

Brakes has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 513 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Brakes employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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513 reviews
1.0
Feb 8, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Half decent pay.Thats all. Nothing more to say.

Cons

Absolutely everything. Couldn't agree more with almost all the other reviews. If there is a worse place to work I feel very sorry for the Employees. The Management couldn't care less about the staff, there well being and health. The hours they make you work are out of order and they will sack you for any reason given the chance. I wouldn't be sorry if they went bust it would be very just.

1.0
Jan 27, 2016

Class 2 driver

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Monday to Friday with odd Saturday.but nothing else.money would be good if didn't have to do 12+hour days.

Cons

No sufficient training,did two weeks in the class room and then chucked onto a freezer route for 3 weeks to only be chucked onto a ambient truck by myself with no help and training.At the beginning they told me 8 weeks training??I brought this up as an issue to my "mentor" who just told me to get on with it??They send you on blind routes which can take up to 13+hours to complete if you don't know what your doing and going ,you find yourself working through your tacho rest breaks just to keep up.They say you must take you tacho break but mentally it felt like they were forcing me to work through them.

1.0
Oct 18, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I would say twenty percent of the people are genuine and have sadly ended up in a ruin of what used to be a great company, you should leave when they do.

Cons

1. Making someone hundreds of thousands of pounds in profit to be paid a pound. 2. Overworked because they cant keep up with how many people escape the hole that it is. 3. No one has any idea what they are doing and probably never will. EVER 4. Personality will get you fired. Be a sheep or lose your job 5. They will expect you to sell frozen fish to a news stand and meat to a vegetarian school. 6. Standards of recruitment are low, you will be sitting next to someone who smells dead. 7. Management do tend to speak to you like dirt and bare their teeth like rabid dogs. 8. Targets that have been plucked out of the air by morons. 9. Waiting for someone to die before you can progress. 10. You would be as well working for Ashley Madison with all the cheating that goes on 11. Stupidity at every level. The list goes on and on

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