Timberland Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Timberland

Pros – There are so many great people involved with the brand. It is a brand in transition, but employees believe in the brand so strongly it becomes a positive experience. Lots of experience involved with the brand.

Cons – Onboarding is a problem with minimal support and lack of direction. Brand is in transition so opportunities are uncertain. There are some employees that have been there for a long time but experience is not always taken advantage of.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep employees in the loop. One of the greatest assets of the brand is the faith the employees have in the brand. You need to let them in on the vision to keep the faith alive good or bad.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Timberland full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Opportunity to:
-- Work on a global brand with lots of consumer appeal
-- Take on big projects from start to finish with limited oversight
-- Live in Seacoast NH (near Boston, the mountains, universities)
-- Balance work & life (true for most, but not all jobs here)

Cons – -- Salaries are low (even by NH standards)
-- Limited upward mobility

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Timberland full-time

Pros – Companies can do well and do good. 40 hrs paid time to do community service. Great employee discount for Timberland and other VF brands. Great food in the Gorge. Wonderful employees.

Cons – New ownership is changing the culture even thought they say they bought the company because of the culture. Lots of personnel changes in the past year.

Advice to Senior Management – Timberland is unique. Don't screw it up.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Timberland full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Had decent benefits and culture, but is all changing.

Cons – Too much change at once. Too many tasks to worker ratio.

Former Employee – worked at Timberland full-time

Pros – - Fantastic, quality products
- generous employee discounts on products
- 40 hrs paid leave for community service each year
- most employees are very friendly and outgoing

Cons – - Recent buyout by VF Corp. has forced considerable restructuring and downsizing as VF looks to eliminate redundancies

Advice to Senior Management – The key to the company's success is retaining the talent that is still there. Morale is down in the wake of recent restructuring activities; be mindful of this.

Current Employee – been working at Timberland

Pros – Community Service/Company Involvement. Allow and compensating staff for being involved within the community.

Cons – Changing of corp. management several times, which meant taking something good and turning it into something that wasn't consistant

Advice to Senior Management – Good Luck! Allow your staff to take ownership and pride in stores. I know that is what Timberland was built on. I do not think that Mr. Swartz is fully aware how stores are being misdirected

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Timberland

Pros – Here you will work with very smart colleagues and have many opportunities for growth! They treat all of their employees very well and the benefits are like no other company.

Cons – The systems are a bit out dated but they are working on updating them.

Advice to Senior Management – n/a

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Timberland

Pros – I'm an outdoor enthusiast and there are lots of like-minded people working there.

Cons – Unfortunately I ended up leaving Timberland because I was offered a lot more to work elsewhere.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't wait until people are headed for the door before you offer them a competitive salary.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Timberland

Pros – Payed every week
fun environment

Cons – Mangers Suck
more hours needed

Advice to Senior Management – Keep Family problems out of the work place

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Timberland

Pros – Great discount. You are taught everything and it is an easy job to start at. After about two weeks, I knew exactly what I had to do every time. A lot of regular customers so sometimes they begin to recognize you, feels good belonging. Also the fellow sales associates are very cool, made some life long friends working at the company. Casual and relaxed dress code, for stock you can even wear sweats/basketball shorts. I never needed to use them so im not exactly sure, but my fellow employees told me the benefits were great for part timers. Very easy to get requested time off. Very environmentally friendly.

Cons – I am not a fan of the company and would not recommend working with them. Was an employee for four years straight at two different locations and never got a promotion. Raises are one time a year, and if you get $0.20, that is very good. I remember people getting as low as $0.08, basically a slap in the face more than a reward. Basically, the stores have very poor management. The managers are very lazy and abuse their title. They will be doing nothing, and still ask the associate to go get a shoe or do some other very simple task they could easily do. Also, some stores do not allow their part time employees to handle cash at the register. This was also a slap in the face to me, for as a 20 year old college student who had been employed for years at the time, I felt i was more than qualified to handle cash. However, I was not. This also gave managers another excuse to be lazy as one would stay at the register at all times. Even if there were no customers, a manager would continue to sit at the register just doing nothing. Also, there was one security guard. When he would take an hour lunch, someone would have to stand at the front to greet and watch for theft in that area. More times than half, a manager would take this position. If only management can handle cash, and must supervise and MANAGE the store, why would they bound themselves to just the guard's spot in the front? Because they were very lazy. These are just two examples, but basically the managers were very lazy and would ask every employee to do even the smallest task (a 30 second task sometimes) before doing it themselves. Also, there is no room for growth as bad as the management was. I was an employee for two years, then transferred and was an employee for one year. While employed, a manager quit. I was very trusted and respected, and was basically running the stock room. It was q4 and we were short a manager, yet i NOR anyone else was promoted. Instead, the head manager decided to work the entire q4 short one manager, sometimes scheduling other mangers for open-close shifts right off the bat, and then hired a completely new manager from outside after q4. The list goes on and on, but as you can see, very poor management. Also, the stock room was often neglected. After a while I was basically the "stock lead". On my days off, nobody would work the stock room. The shipment would literally sit there untouched. Instead of having another person process it, it just waited till my next shift. So another con is the stock room is often very annoyed, and if you are responsible for stock the work load gets very heavy and you are still nott given assistance. Yet, although they knew I had 3 days of stock work to do sometimes, they would schedule me for short shifts like 11-4. So i would have to do 3 days work in half of a shift. Another flaw, lack of hours. During q4 you can get all the hours you want. After that, not a chance. The maximum amount of hours you will receive a week is 25, and thats usually the best employee or two as most part timers get 12-20. Some as low as less than 10 consistently. No raises, no growth, very poor management, and a large lack of hours. Strongly recommend finding employment elsewhere unless you are in high school and this is your first job as it is fun at first until you realize you deserve more.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop being lazy. You guys are managers - lead by example and show us how its done. Do not use your title to be able to stand around and have the employees be your minions. Also, give some people a chance. Ive seen people work at stores literally from OPENING DAY for two years straight and get nothing but a twenty cent raise. Ive also seen people work this same amount of time and get beat to a management position by someone never employed by timberland. Basically, management has to start actually doing their job and using common sense.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend