Hobby Lobby reviews

3.2

45% would recommend to a friend

(4,941 total reviews)
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45% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Hobby Lobby has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 4,941 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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2.0
May 8, 2014

BUYER - Beware

Recommend
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Pros

Sundays - Store Closed. A total of 66 Customer operating hours, easy to schedule and manage. Full time Associates - Great Pay and benefits.

Cons

Training and Development non-existent. They are growing and numerous opportunities, but they hire within on the Good ole boy system. Not what you know, but who.

1.0
Feb 2, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Closed on Sunday is the only plus I can possibly think of!

Cons

They literally change their minds from one day to another - never giving stores enough help to run their stores - their supervisors get their jobs getting the work done by using family members off the clock and only paying them when they have enough labor dollars left if they don't it goes as free help then hold others accountable to the level achieved by cheating wow. They own you form thanksgiving until after inventory - after 6-8 weeks of 70-80 hrs they will throw you a bone wait for it wow take a four day weekend you give me 30 hours a week for 8 weeks and I give you 16 hours back WOW!

1.0
Dec 3, 2013

Demeaning

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Customers are great and it was nice to work in a crafting environment.

Cons

District management and up all treat the store employees like they are not human. Store managers do not last more then 2.5 years - they all get fired. Hours given to employes are based on sales. It does not matter that you have 50 hours or resetting to do. If your sales are low they expect you to do it 20 because they can't spare the extra money to pay someone to help you. District managers come in and grade you on if the store is stocked. They pick x amount of items and if you are out of the item you flunk. It does not matter that someone may have bought all 3 that you keep in stock yesterday - it is considered a fail. The pay is so low that a mom of 2 who had been working there full time for 10 years still qualified for food stamps. There are no advancement opportunities.

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