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      3.5

      64% would recommend to a friend

      (6,999 total reviews)
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      John R. Menard Jr.

      49% approve of CEO

      58% positive business outlook

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      Menards has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,999 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Menards 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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      7K reviews
      3.0
      Aug 4, 2008

      A great job for a high school or college student...Wonderful way to gain experience and move on.

      Department manager
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      Pros

      Flexible for the part-time employee Additional weekend pay Yearly bonus if your store is profitable-based on time with the company up to 15% of your income Gain management experience with the manage by walking around philosophy

      Cons

      As a department manager you are completely married to the job. 52+ hours a week that were required by the store manager (per the contract signed we were committed to 48 hours)—every Friday you must work until noon on your weekend off and be back to work by noon on Monday. Mandatory every other weekend very long hours open to close (Saturday 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday 8 a.m. – 7p.m.) Now this doesn't too bad however, it is retail and absolutely you need time to recharge the customer service battery!

      3.0
      Aug 4, 2008

      Working at Menards

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      There are a lot of fun people there. I really like working in my field. There are opportunities to move up if you want them. I have made a lot of friends from working there. You do not have to make work your life if you do not want to. At the end of the day you can just go home and not worry about it. This job will not be my career job, but for a part time job, it is not so bad. I can find help if I need to on certain tasks if I have questions.

      Cons

      Not everyone is friendly. There are some people in management that should not be there. There are people there that will argue everything with you, whether you make a positive or negative statement. I honestly feel like the majority of management belongs right where they are, and are very good at what they do. However, it's always those few people that ruin the experience of working somewhere for other people. Sometimes you can get blamed for things that are not your fault if you are not careful. Honestly though, there are not a whole lot of downsides to working there.

      2.0
      Jun 13, 2008

      Good experience but low pay

      Department manager
      Recommend
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      Pros

      You can get a job with no experience. Easy to get management experience. If able to deal with the compensation can move up quickly. Most of the people that I worked for and with I really liked. A lot of hard working down to earth people there. If you are willing to relocate you could move up very quickly. In busy stores you can work about as much over time as you would like. You also learn a lot of things about home improvement that you can apply to your own house or a friends house that seem to be a job that had to be hired out before.

      Cons

      Low pay for someone with a college degree. A lot of rules about when managers have to work and hard to get time off. The biggest thing is the low pay per hour. Also the corporate office has a lot of control over a store and each store is a little different from the next one. There is a rule at Menards that you can not point a guest(customer) in the direction of a product but you must take them to it. There was a person fired for pointing and a Department manager of well over 20 years suspended without pay for pointing to the end of the aisle during a busy time when he was swamped. All because someone from corporate saw him point.

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