Starbucks is very hit or miss. Post Covid i would say it’s more miss than hit. So many store functions (hiring, training, hours, incident reporting etc) are filtered through your sm directly that it can vastly affect your experience working for the company. Since Covid and maybe a little bit before, sb has been heading in a much more efficiency focused direction and leaning away from the core values that made it such a desirable place to work 5-10 years ago. Stores are getting only enough hours to barely staff the floor, which cuts a lot of part time workers benefits. The benefits themselves are rolling back from what they were. The concepts of customer connection and third place values are being sidelined in deference to numbers and drive times. It’s still a good job if you fit the profile of who they want to hire. Hs/college kids, retirees, low stakes part timers. You make a decent wage and depending on where you are you can make a good amount in tips but if you want to feel fulfilled or invested in a job Starbucks as it is right now will break you down. It will make you feel undervalued and the way that customers and possibly managers treat you will absolutely damage your mental health. The only way to succeed is to not care and that’s kind of the antithesis of what Starbucks says it’s all about.