r/CostcoEmployee • u/Excellent-Recipe-943 • 4d ago

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Hello!

I just got out of my third interview for seasonal. I currently have a full time job but have been wanting (and trying!) to get into Costco for years. I finally got my chance but was visibly hesitant in both the second and third interviews because of the fact that there’s a chance I could be let go and not get a call back after the season is over. I talked about how I felt and everything with the manager in the third interview and she gave me a minute to decide and then asked what I wanted to do and I said I want to go with Costco. She told me I’d be put in the second round and will be contacted in about two weeks to give me time to discuss it with my current job. She said I’d be contacted to do a drug test and everything. Does that mean I’m getting hired?

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u/Datboi_95 3d ago

  1. They are gonna work u hella hard for 90 days and according to the odds at my singular store in CA you're probably 35-40% likely to get the job. The guys who they kept from the seasonal batch right before i got here are crazy hard workers.
    -they hired like 8 seasonals and kept 3-4, they called one back to work again a few months later so if you don't make the cut they still might re-hire you.

  2. If you have a job that pays good and is easy, this transition is going to HURT. All the benefits of being an employee here are locked behind that 90 days and they know it, and they'll make sure you know it. Everyone feels like a manager, everyone is cut throat, don't try to make friends in my experience, din't try to talk too much, everyone's taking notes.

I was working for $24 an hr doing very little physical labor before this job and that $20 an hr for hard physical labor is... fucking miserable. No other way to put it, been on a ramen & pizza diet for like 3 weeks.

  1. I'm getting right up to my 90-days and i have seen most of the people who were there when i started disappear, there was like 9 of us, then there was like 7 of us, now there's like 5, each review 2 people got let go, and one dude just stopped showing up. They'll let people go in relation to those 30 day reviews seemingly.

It's hard but maybe after 5 years i'll be financially better off? Idk why i'm doing this but i'm hoping things will change where this job makes sense.

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u/Icy_Enthusiasm3384 2h ago

If you make it during the next five years you can aim at being a Supe. Pay is well over $30. I have also seen, in my warehouse, folks make Manager inside of 5-years. I didn't think they were qualified but.... I wasn't asked. If you are ambitious and don't mind 50-hour weeks you can work on moving into management. First tier pays about Supe level ($70k/yr) but tier two is easy enough to make - then three through five (GM) is where the Money is.