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Currys is a retailer. They sell electrical goods and domestic appliances. They were formerly known as Currys PC World.

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Currys job reviews

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  • Best thing

    The colleagues

    Worst thing

    The pay
    The management
    How the company thinks things should be done are clearly coming from people who have never worked in store

    2.3

    Currys Sales advisor, February 2024

  • Best thing

    The staff and freedom to move around and do different things

    Worst thing

    The targets and getting dismissed for an alleged comment knowing I’m also autistic

    4.7

    Currys Employee, February 2024

  • Best thing

    Good wage

    Worst thing

    The people and expectations

    9.7

    Currys Quality assurance, January 2024

  • Best thing

    Money

    Worst thing

    But they never pay correctly and they pay roll system sucks

    1.6

    Currys Sales assistant, December 2023

  • Best thing

    Not a lot

    Worst thing

    Most things

    5.0

    Currys Customer service, October 2023

  • Best thing

    Simplistic

    Worst thing

    The abuse from members of the public and low pay while expected to do multiple jobs

    4.1

    Currys Customer service, September 2023

  • Worst thing

    low wages for what is expected of us, no training, too much responsibility.

    1.5

    Currys Sales advisor, September 2023

  • Best thing

    Planned route for jobs

    Worst thing

    Driving

    9.9

    Currys Gas engineer, September 2023

  • Best thing

    The people I work with

    Worst thing

    The lack of staff and constant pressure when staffing isn't right

    4.8

    Currys Employee, August 2023

  • Best thing

    Great place to work, lots of benefits, good pay and a great working environment. Store management are brilliant and strive to make your job enjoyable and productive, are generally great people.

    Worst thing

    Head office won’t update our infrastructure or equipment which DESPERATELY needs it

    9.2

    Currys Sales assistant, August 2023

  • Best thing

    Meeting people

    Worst thing

    Targets that your manager isn't allowed to enforce but writes you up anyway for something else that I can't prove innocence

    1.5

    Currys Sales assistant, August 2023

  • Best thing

    Good benefits, good team

    Worst thing

    Targets are harsh

    9.2

    Currys Sales assistant, August 2023

  • Best thing

    Few colleagues make the job better.
    Discount is not bad.

    Worst thing

    The managers are absolutely worse they pressure colleagues into selling additional services to customers.

    The manager in charge of schedules does not give you notice of shift changes.

    Managers interfere in sales done by colleagues and force customers into taking additional warranties or any addons just to hit the target.

    Managers treat you disrespectfully and talk behind your back in an unfair manner.

    1.0

    Currys Employee, August 2023

  • Best thing

    Improving social skills

    Worst thing

    Management of people

    7.0

    Currys Sales assistant, July 2023

  • Best thing

    The non-management colleagues and sales representatives

    Worst thing

    Management

    3.9

    Currys Sales associate, July 2023

  • Best thing

    Fast paced and engaging. Good engagement with LGBTQIA+ and Pride related things. Good discounts and the cinema tickets perk is very good as it includes the option to buy popcorn and drink combos as well. The colleagues are nice to work with and the hours I work aren't unreasonable.

    Worst thing

    Understaffed constantly, the introduction of the "colleagues unleashed" initiative now the company the the trained specialists to work in all departments and hit all the designated KPI's for no significant increase in wages, no time to actually learn all the new things we have to do so we're often learning as we go and end up making a lot of mistakes.

    5.5

    Currys Sales assistant, July 2023

  • Best thing

    Good perks, not too bad work hours

    Worst thing

    Targets are a massive stress by managers, if you don’t hit your targets, management treat you poorly

    5.0

    Currys Sales assistant, June 2023

  • Worst thing

    My manger called me fat and is really rude

    1.9

    Currys Sales assistant, May 2023

  • Best thing

    the people, staff are wonderful and genuinely really good to get along with

    Worst thing

    super stressful at times, left to do tasks by myself, managers can be too criticising, customers can be extremely rude which can ruin your day as a whole

    3.5

    Currys Warehouse operative, May 2023

  • Best thing

    Making people happy

    Worst thing

    Getting people yelling at me as well as my manager

    3.2

    Currys Sales assistant, May 2023

  • Best thing

    Meet and work with a wide variety of people

    Worst thing

    Poor internal communication

    4.6

    Currys Call centre agent, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Meeting new people

    Worst thing

    Long stressful hours

    1.8

    Currys Sales assistant, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Out on the road different places everyday

    Worst thing

    Used to be able to manage your day yourself get your jobs done and clock off now you have to do other people's job if you finish ahead of schedule and don't seem to get any thanks for it but this is only at my depot other depots don't do this

    8.0

    Currys Gas engineer, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Other colleagues make it enjoyable, lots of useful knowledge on tech with real-world experience and a good stepping stone for most people's careers.

    Worst thing

    Extremely numbers-motivated, warranties and broadband are pushed a lot but there's far more targets to monitor. Stressful environment. Feels like you aren't being rewarded enough for the workload at times, you can be set some very long or intensive tasks.

    2.4

    Currys Sales advisor, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Pretty straightforward job once you understand it for good money

    Worst thing

    Periodic heavy lifting, rude customers, very target based

    7.7

    Currys Employee, April 2023

  • Worst thing

    Target management and I'm doing 4 peoples jobs

    1.8

    Currys Sales assistant, April 2023

  • Best thing

    I am in a customer facing environment and interacting with customers on a day to day basis to keep them well informed about their tech.

    Worst thing

    The management team take offence to my degree and intellectual ability of know technology and always offering the best service

    2.3

    Currys Customer advisor, March 2023

  • Best thing

    Simple, not hard work
    Many recourses online for training

    Worst thing

    30 minute unpaid break
    Whole job revolves around selling warranties/regulated services

    6.1

    Currys Sales assistant, March 2023

  • Best thing

    Nothing

    Worst thing

    Poor management system.
    Employees are treated poorly.
    Managers care only about numbers instead of their employees.
    Shifts are always changed and never fixed.
    Short staffed always.
    More pressure to achieve random targets.
    Less training given.

    1.2

    Currys Retail assistant, March 2023

  • Best thing

    Great environment.
    Many different sectors to work in.

    Worst thing

    Very stressful when managers don’t take you seriously.

    4.6

    Currys Sales advisor, March 2023

  • Best thing

    In some cases other sales colleagues and friendly customers

    Worst thing

    Chaotic staffing leading to too few staff during busy periods. Managers who do not care. Relentless changes to sales targets and pushing care agreements, add ons and broadband packages.

    5.5

    Currys Sales assistant, February 2023

  • Best thing

    Good job travelling around meeting new people

    Worst thing

    Workload sometimes

    9.5

    Currys Gas engineer, January 2023

  • Best thing

    The staff and the pay

    Worst thing

    High stress environment and unfair targets

    3.2

    Currys Sales assistant, January 2023

  • Best thing

    Perks of the jobs
    10% staff discount
    Building sales and people skills
    Learning and selling tech.

    Worst thing

    Dealing with angry customers.
    Short staffing.
    Selling insurance is a must.

    4.2

    Currys Sales assistant, January 2023

  • Best thing

    Discount on latest tech

    Worst thing

    Just a number on a spreadsheet

    6.0

    Currys Sales assistant, December 2022

  • Worst thing

    Grey area selling ethics nothing illegal.

    1.7

    Currys Sales assistant, December 2022

  • Best thing

    Staff discount and seeing new tech

    Worst thing

    Management prioritising targets over colleague wellbeing. Way too many targets and ‘unleashing’ was one of the worse things to happen as we have to effectively do multiple roles in the store with little all while receiving no increase in pay

    3.7

    Currys Sales assistant, November 2022

  • Best thing

    The technology and the sales team.

    Worst thing

    Management needs tweaking and working hours should be closer to contract regardless of peak times.

    6.6

    Currys Sales assistant, November 2022

  • Best thing

    My team, and always being kept busy

    Worst thing

    The targets we have to hit. And rude customers

    3.4

    Currys Sales assistant, October 2022

  • Best thing

    Work with people
    Some of the management

    Worst thing

    Higher up management
    Trying to take sick days off getting guilt tripped and told your not ill and to come in.
    High stress out on workers to get set goals otherwsie get threatensed of less hours and possibly being fired.

    3.0

    Currys Sales assistant, October 2022

  • Best thing

    You create good work friends.

    Worst thing

    Management isn’t always great. They like to say they support you but most of the time they don’t care. They expect you to do everything when you can only do so much

    4.9

    Currys Sales assistant, October 2022

  • Best thing

    The people, it feels like a family

    Worst thing

    The customer service desk, when unsure and need help it's hard to find someone capable to help.

    8.6

    Currys Sales assistant, October 2022

  • Best thing

    Easy

    Worst thing

    Pressure to hit targets

    9.1

    Currys Sales assistant, September 2022

  • Best thing

    They treat their managers poorly. Colleagues are treated better

    Worst thing

    Lack of contact between stores and senior leaders

    1.1

    Currys Employee, September 2022

  • Worst thing

    No support customers shouting at me

    7.0

    Currys Sales assistant, September 2022

  • Best thing

    Pay
    Days worked so 5 on 3 off

    Worst thing

    Management
    Head office
    Routing is shocking

    6.3

    Currys Delivery driver, September 2022

  • Best thing

    Sim card deals for collegues

    Worst thing

    "Unleashing" aka the company making you do every single position at the work place, not increasing your pay for the influx of responsibilites, absoltley ZERO training and constant addition of more targets and metrics to meet whilst the benefits of what they provide to the customer constantly decreases!

    3.0

    Currys Sales assistant, September 2022

  • Best thing

    The people I work with

    Worst thing

    Management and above

    1.1

    Currys Sales assistant, September 2022

  • Best thing

    See my friends

    Worst thing

    The new System it getting on my nerves no more Upstairs and down stairs it all over the place

    4.1

    Currys Employee, September 2022

  • Best thing

    Dealing with many different customers and solving problems for many different people

    Worst thing

    Half the staff are severely incompetent and lack any form of motivation to learn how to perform their job.

    7.8

    Currys Employee, August 2022