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Harbor Freight Tools

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Harbor Freight Tools reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(3,449 total reviews)
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Eric Smidt

67% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Harbor Freight Tools has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,449 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Harbor Freight Tools employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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3K reviews
4.0
May 27, 2014

Good job, bad customers

Recommend
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Pros

- above minimum wage, with commission and annual raises - willing to hire young people with little or no experience; it's s good entry level job- started when I was 16. - job stability. As long as you do what your told and hold your tongue with customers you're pretty set. - lots of room to move up in the company. I'm only 18 and I was promoted to management within my second year with the company. -great management team, good co-workers, fun job when working with the right people. -flexible schedules

Cons

- very many rude and disrespectful customers. I'm a young girl and I've been cussed at, threatened, and verbally harassed by many customers(name calling, screaming, very inappropriate sexual comments, etc.) - management doesn't properly enforce policies -very hard work. Sales are driven a little too hard and if an employee does something wrong not only do they get punished but so does the MOD. - I work at a very busy store with only 4 registers and our request for more registers keeps getting refused. - lots of hour cuts and often understaffed because of budget

2.0
May 20, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great chances at increasing pay through commissions off of warranties and memberships.

Cons

Terrible customers and overrall lack of harmony with co-workers.

3.0
May 13, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly co-workers that got along with one another Friendly Assistant Managers who did the best they could to work alongside with employees Incentives for reaching sales goals. Decent employee discount Flexible work-schedule

Cons

Very unorganized management. Employees extremely undertrained Lacked store resources Understaffed on certain days due to management wanting to save money on labor Very Sales orientated with lack of loyalty to the consumer

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