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      What is the salary like at Brakes?

      Brakes reviews

      Good money but bad environment

      Warehouse operative
      Current employee
      London, England
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Good pay and lots of overtime available

      Cons

      Bad management, favouritism and gossiping

      Toxic but good pay

      Warehouse operative
      Former employee
      London, England
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Lots of overtime available and good pay

      Cons

      Toxic environment and management. Hard to progress

      Decent

      Warehouse operative
      Current employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Good pay and overtime garunteed.

      Cons

      Managers a bit more fair on their employees, longer break

      Good place to work

      Class 2 driver
      Current employee
      Tamworth, England
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Good pay, good managers, potential to be home early, overtime if you want it.

      Cons

      Can be physically hard at times

      Good

      Warehouse manager
      Current employee
      Aylesford, England
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Good pay, great staff, decent hours

      Cons

      Upper management not seen on nights

      Very disorganised and poor treatment of staff

      Hgv driver
      Former employee
      Warrington, North West England, England
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Cheap food , pension the usual

      Cons

      Management expect you to do overtime for free all the time regardless of offering overtime as extra pay at the start. By the time you've done all your hours the salary is close to minimum wage and you have no life due to pushing close to maximum hours.

      Brakes

      Picker
      Current employee
      Harlow, England
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Good pay, good staff, canteen

      Cons

      Bad balanced worklife, terrible management

      Good company, bad management

      Warehouse operative
      Former employee
      Tamworth, England
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Great benefits and good wages

      Cons

      Bad management that don’t respect staff

      Long Days without overtime pay

      Hgv driver
      Current employee
      Warrington, North West England, England
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Pay is decent, so is staff discount on foods.

      Cons

      Long days, heavy lifting. Only get paid for 9 hours. Awful job if you have a family or a social life.

      Do research

      Class 2 driver
      Former employee
      Portbury, England
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Cheap discounted food, staff sales. Getting class 2 driving experiance

      Cons

      Wages seem good, but what they forget to tell you is you dont get paid over the hours you do, their answer to this is that its done over a 17 week period, I done 6 months and I didnt see this personally, for me it was roughly 12 to 14 hours a day and the one day I was getting a "flyer" they started to add another load on so would have to travel back out again. Holidays are hard to book as theres not enough drivers everyday to cover routes, so they get rejected a lot. Theres alot to go through, do your research.

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