Hobby Lobby reviews

3.2

45% would recommend to a friend

(4,939 total reviews)
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44% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Hobby Lobby has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 4,939 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hobby Lobby 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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5K reviews
1.0
Oct 8, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

-Talented coworkers -Social work environment -Learn new techniques -Made some close friends **There is a 20 word minimum on for this section and I can only come up with 12.**

Cons

-Team leaders didn't bother to show up to my interview. -Told I was replaceable my very first day. -Team Leaders consistently lose projects/paperwork. -Team Leader makes a habit of talking to employees like they are small children. Very degrading. -Management is extremely suspicious. -Politically incorrect work environment. -Raises are a joke. And if you make "too much" you don't get one. -I worked there 6 months before my boss ever spoke to me. She also called me by the wrong name. -My boss also literally snapped her fingers at me because I wasn't moving fast enough. **This is just the tip of the iceberg**

1.0
May 13, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

They pay is competitve for medium box retail. You are surrounded by Cristian themes. The beautiful dispays you can build put a nice twist on the typical retail landscape.

Cons

You will work 75 hours a week Feb-Oct. You will work 90 hours a week Nov-Jan. You will get NO Days off except Thanksgiving and Christmas Day during Nov, Dec, Jan. You will get a project in april that will require 80 hour weeks, so that you miss Easter. The Cristian Claimed company will take you away from your family during all Christian Holidays. The DM or RVP will send email canceling days off at least once a month. Of course you will already be working those off days if you care about your store meeting weekly inspections. When you finally get over the hurdle and are ready to take a day off, instead you will go to corp. meeting and listen to the cheers of the hundreds of millions the company profited off your efforts and get handed a bonus check for 8K. I would rather had the day off. The company tried to say no working on Sundays, but then retracted when they learned that managers were working 5am to midnights 6 days a week to compensate. So they went back to the 7 day work week.

1.0
Jan 26, 2024

Unrealistic expectations

Recommend
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Pros

Pay is above average, because..

Cons

You're going to get worked to death You're going to wear nice clothes to unload an insane amount of freight and throw it up on a high shelf You won't have enough labor to get half of the tasks done You might have a DM whose home store looks like trash and comes to criticize everything about your good-looking store on a regular basis (You're the worst boss I've ever had, Steve) No work/life balance I got hired at one store, "trained" for 2 weeks, got moved to a store an hour away with zero input Archaic systems including ordering, checkouts, labor forecasts, and truck unloading/stocking Holidays are insane, and the hours you'll be working are too You'll be expected to cut everyone's hours down to the bone when sales aren't spectacular, and you'll be picking up the slack You're going to touch the same products dozens of times instead of off the truck, on the shelf, and done The list goes on really. I was at my last job for 13 years, didn't stay a full year at this hellscape. The pay just wasn't justified and the benefits were subpar.

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