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Iceland is a supermarket chain. They specialise in frozen food.

iceland.co.uk

Iceland job reviews

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  • Best thing

    Colleagues and customers

    Worst thing

    Early starts and targets

    2.6

    Iceland Shop assistant, March 2024

  • Best thing

    The people I work with

    Worst thing

    Late notices.
    It's hard to get a day off when sick if your scheduled that day.
    Customers!!!!

    3.9

    Iceland Employee, March 2024

  • Best thing

    the staff

    Worst thing

    customers, work environment, what has to be done and not being able to take full breaks

    1.5

    Iceland Retail assistant, March 2024

  • Worst thing

    Moldy crates used for deliveries

    1.3

    Iceland Retail assistant, January 2024

  • Best thing

    Nothing

    Worst thing

    Not enough staff, huge work load expectations, last minute rota changes without being told. Managers are lazy

    1.2

    Iceland Duty manager, January 2024

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  • Best thing

    The best thing is that if I finish early I get to keep those hours

    Worst thing

    When the staff take too long to pick
    An order which makes me late

    6.4

    Iceland Home delivery driver, January 2024

  • Best thing

    not much really

    Worst thing

    New delivery scheduler system screws the drivers over worse than before

    4.1

    Iceland Home delivery driver, January 2024

  • Best thing

    The people I work with are nice and I am always busy doing something

    Worst thing

    The amount of hours that I get

    8.9

    Iceland Employee, January 2024

  • Best thing

    The people I work with

    Worst thing

    The company and how the place is managed nobody listens

    1.1

    Iceland Duty manager, December 2023

  • Best thing

    it can be fun

    Worst thing

    it can be stressful

    8.2

    Iceland Employee, December 2023

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  • Best thing

    The people I work with are genuinely some of the best

    Worst thing

    The manager and above

    2.4

    Iceland Supervisor, December 2023

  • Best thing

    The people I work with

    Worst thing

    Traffic

    8.4

    Iceland Delivery driver, November 2023

  • Best thing

    The discount
    Usually make good friends with staff

    Worst thing

    Customers !!!
    And then there's the customers
    Realising how many people don't know what simple common sense is and how to even treat another person
    Oh and did I forget to say , haha , THE CUSTOMERS
    sometimes the staff depending on where you work

    9.1

    Iceland General assistant, October 2023

  • Best thing

    Sometimes it can be lenient for certain people, depending

    1.5

    Iceland Supervisor, October 2023

  • Best thing

    Job satisfaction

    Worst thing

    Amount expected to do with little pay.

    2.6

    Iceland Employee, October 2023

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  • Best thing

    Learn alot of new skills for both life and work.

    Worst thing

    Its a strenuous and tedious job

    6.8

    Iceland General assistant, September 2023

  • Best thing

    The team I work with

    Worst thing

    Very stressfull environment, massively overworked

    1.7

    Iceland Employee, August 2023

  • Best thing

    Some of the customers are really nice
    Only a few of the people you work with
    Holidays are easy to book

    Worst thing

    Understaffed
    Made to feel bad about taking a day off
    Some customers are rude
    Gossip

    2.0

    Iceland Retail assistant, August 2023

  • Best thing

    Keeps me fit, meet lots of people, tips, get to know my city

    Worst thing

    Unrealistic expectations of how much can be delivered in time

    3.0

    Iceland Delivery driver, August 2023

  • Best thing

    My team

    Worst thing

    Pressures around drivers and blocking online due to sickness

    8.0

    Iceland Store manager, July 2023

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  • Best thing

    Collegues

    Worst thing

    Old place and hard job

    7.3

    Iceland Bartender, July 2023

  • Best thing

    The people around me are generally good and the job is relatively straightforward, yet can become stressful at times

    Worst thing

    The stress and the treatment by some managers and members of the public is rude

    7.1

    Iceland Store assistant, June 2023

  • Best thing

    The people you work with.

    Worst thing

    Nothing

    9.0

    Iceland Sales assistant, June 2023

  • Best thing

    good wage

    Worst thing

    have to work almost every weekend

    4.2

    Iceland Retail assistant, June 2023

  • Best thing

    The pay

    Worst thing

    Disrespectful management
    Other employees
    Repetitive

    1.6

    Iceland Sales assistant, June 2023

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  • Best thing

    It's piss easy

    Worst thing

    Lack of hours (apparently constantly overspent)
    Having to beg for hours
    Favouritism
    Gossip
    No night time pay

    2.0

    Iceland Employee, June 2023

  • Best thing

    Some of my colleagues.

    Worst thing

    lazy colleagues. Stock replenishment.

    4.1

    Iceland Employee, May 2023

  • Best thing

    My colleagues

    Worst thing

    Work load labour model

    2.3

    Iceland Store manager, May 2023

  • Best thing

    The colleagues are good.

    Worst thing

    They expect you to do loads of work in little time.

    1.2

    Iceland Duty manager, May 2023

  • Best thing

    The flexibility

    Worst thing

    Night shifts, pay isn’t great

    2.4

    Iceland Sales assistant, April 2023

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  • Best thing

    Close to home, easy enough to do.

    Worst thing

    Lazy team and sometimes workload doesn’t match the amount of time on shift.

    6.6

    Iceland Sales assistant, April 2023

  • Best thing

    abit of freedom

    Worst thing

    Timing as most the time
    i’m running
    into my break

    7.1

    Iceland Home delivery driver, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Togetherness and unity

    Worst thing

    Cashing up

    8.0

    Iceland Supervisor, March 2023

  • Best thing

    The times I start and proximity to my house

    Worst thing

    The pressure and work demand also the organisation is terrible and drivers have to suffer responsibly of poor management don’t get much say and feel forced or bullied to do extra work with no guarantee of pay

    1.7

    Iceland Delivery driver, March 2023

  • Best thing

    The team in store

    Worst thing

    The higher ups no longer care about how tough it is in store for the teams. Lack of hours to get the same amount of work done as before hour cuts.
    No time to take breaks.
    Don't care about wellbeing of staff when decisions are made.

    2.6

    Iceland Employee, February 2023

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  • Best thing

    the pay
    the discount in iceland

    Worst thing

    HORRIBLE CUSTOMERS.
    NOT ENOUGH TILLS OPENED
    NOT ENOUGH STAFF

    5.0

    Iceland Sales assistant, January 2023

  • Best thing

    I get to see happy customers and lovely customers who love to see me and talk to me as well.

    Worst thing

    Having to deal with rude customers and not getting enough holidays and not getting enough hours.

    3.4

    Iceland Cashier, January 2023

  • Best thing

    I like the people who I work with, some are very friendly and helpful

    Worst thing

    I get stressed very easily

    1.4

    Iceland Employee, January 2023

  • Best thing

    Good discount and some friendly staff

    Worst thing

    Some staff and stupid hours for minimum wage

    2.6

    Iceland Employee, January 2023

  • Best thing

    The customers are lovely, love going put and meeting them , while providing a service to all people

    Worst thing

    Sometimes it's hard to get back in time but get there in the end

    9.6

    Iceland Delivery driver, January 2023

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  • Best thing

    A good team work ethic

    Worst thing

    A poor work ethic

    6.4

    Iceland Warehouse operative, December 2022

  • Best thing

    Great team out on the road constantly doing own thing

    Worst thing

    Long hours hard graft running up and down stairs all day

    8.2

    Iceland Home delivery driver, December 2022

  • Best thing

    Tips and jokes with customers

    Worst thing

    Heavy lifting

    8.4

    Iceland Delivery driver, December 2022

  • Best thing

    The people who work there

    Worst thing

    Management

    2.0

    Iceland Store assistant, December 2022

  • Best thing

    Job is a job

    Worst thing

    Stressed

    3.7

    Iceland Retail assistant, November 2022

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  • Best thing

    Finishing time

    Worst thing

    Start Time, overworked, held back of scheduled delivery slot times due to others not having things ready to be loaded, overloaded delivery crates, more than possible deliveries per window.

    3.2

    Iceland Driver, November 2022

  • Best thing

    Easy Work
    Flexible hours

    Worst thing

    Only offer 7.5 hour contracts so always worrying about wether I’ll get enough money
    Managers rude
    Not great pay

    5.0

    Iceland Employee, November 2022

  • Best thing

    the people staff and some customers having and responsibility’s

    Worst thing

    customers and the work load

    4.1

    Iceland Supervisor, November 2022

  • Best thing

    The customers

    Worst thing

    The horrible colleague that can do as they want and gets away with it

    1.3

    Iceland Employee, November 2022

  • Best thing

    Having a nice team of individuals who are helpful.

    Worst thing

    The fact that Iceland management have cut the staffing hours, so less people have to do more work and 3 different responsibilities at the same time. All in the name of profit!
    People will leave!

    1.4

    Iceland Shop assistant, October 2022