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      Harbor Freight Tools

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      Harbor Freight Tools reviews

      3.6

      63% would recommend to a friend

      (3,450 total reviews)
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      Eric Smidt

      67% approve of CEO

      58% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.6

      Culture & values

      3.5

      Work/Life balance

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.2

      Senior management

      Harbor Freight Tools has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,450 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
      1.0
      Nov 11, 2012

      You Are A Number. Nothing More.

      Retail associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      A paycheck. A part-time paycheck. As long as you are willing to have Open Availability (kinda hard to make this a 2nd job, eh?) hit the next-to-impossible quotas, hawking **USELESS** extras like the Extended Serivce Plan and Inside Track Club...and you are willing to do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING asked of you.

      Cons

      --Having to deal with clueless idiots for management. --Nasty, rude, smelly customers that may or may not understand English. --The fact that you will ALWAYS be part time, or in my case, have your Full Time hours and benefits cut off without warning. --You can be fired for literally ANYTHING at ANY TIME

      2.0
      Nov 7, 2012

      Lack of real leadership and accountability

      Head pricing coordinator
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Most employees are down to earth hard working folks. Customers are fun and I have learned alot from them. PTO accrues quickly and opportunities to earn extra on spiffs.

      Cons

      No real training program, on the job training and you're lucky if someone knows enough about the job to help. More than half of the management teams sits in the office and plays on their phone. The rest of the management team works their butt off and takes a beating for the company and their job. Senior staff plays favorites and overlooks serious performance problems while writing up folks that are taking on huge workloads and who also struggle to get their work done.

      4.0
      Nov 7, 2012

      Great place to work!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Lots of tools if you're into that sort of thing. Good benefit package and pleasant work enviornment

      Cons

      Very hard to get a promotion to manager. They do not promote within but hire ex Home Depot people. Thinking of going to work for the Depot then reapplying to Harbor Freight.

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