Workplace reviews and discussion: DECATHLON法商迪卡儂Retail_台灣迪卡儂有限公司

1. The benefits are okay.

2. Freedom (usually, they won’t give you many instructions).

3. The employees are all very nice and straightforward; there’s no office politics.

4. They really love renting out entire venues with company funds to throw parties.

5. You can say you’ve worked for a French company when you leave.

6. Carrefour, home improvement stores, and furniture stores love poaching employees.

1. A bit stingy; applying for overtime pay is difficult.

2. The base salary is indeed a little higher than elsewhere, but there’s no year-end bonus. You only receive a profit-sharing bonus at the beginning of the year, usually amounting to half a month to one month’s salary—about as underwhelming as it gets.

3. Frontline employees are generally too sensitive and difficult to manage. They may be too young and often don’t understand basic workplace etiquette.

4. Even underperforming employees can’t be disciplined because they haven’t done anything seriously wrong, which leaves middle managers with major headaches.

5. Policies change from morning to evening; the company keeps cycling between experimentation and failure, making life miserable for frontline employees. It may be acceptable at first, but over time it becomes genuinely disappointing.

6. (Also a pro) There are no SOPs or instructions; you have to figure out for yourself what the company needs. If you’re smart, have ideas, and know how to observe, you can really get promoted quickly. But if you’re merely average, you may remain stuck in the same position for a very long time and eventually give up.

7. The salary increases are ridiculously small. You work yourself to the bone, meet all your performance targets, and they’ll simply tell you, “That’s just what you’re supposed to do.” They might toss you a few hundred dollars and feed you some nonsense about expecting you to break through next year. The targets keep getting higher every year, but of course the raise is only a few hundred each time. How many years will it take before the increase actually feels meaningful?

8. There’s only one way to build a high annual salary: work in middle management for about three years, then become a store manager and do that for another two or three years. Only then will things start to look decent—you might reach an annual salary of a million or more. But middle management is brutally tough, and many people have had enough after just one or two years.

After working as a store manager for a while, you may be promoted to regional manager. That’s when the $$$ really becomes a huge, huge package. But the chances are slim, because the people at that level refuse to leave. They work 9–6 every day, clocking in and out on time; it’s a cushy position, so of course they aren’t going anywhere.

Alternatively, you can apply for an internal transfer to lead a head-office department, such as procurement or customer service. By then, you’ll already be thoroughly familiar with the company’s brands and system logic, so it’s easy to go wherever you want. As long as your English is good enough to communicate with the big French boss, and you remember to put on a cosmopolitan persona and make yourself look impressive, you can move freely within the company. You can play around with internal positions as you like: store manager this year, HR next year, and supply chain the year after that~

If you’re determined to take on the challenge of ever-changing policies, come on over! Level up by fighting monsters for ten years, and then we’ll take you to the dungeon boss.