The Home Depot reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(55,789 total reviews)
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Ted Decker

66% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

The Home Depot has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 55,789 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The Home Depot 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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56K reviews
1.0
Sep 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

In MA, time & half on Sundays, IF you get scheduled. The HD medical plan is a bit better than what the average hourly worker gets around town, (so I've been told), however, depending on your hourly rate it can be quite difficult to fully enroll in it. In fact it is the only item of the Benefits Package I can afford. HD also offers stock options and retirement plans to its employees, but again, if you can't afford the weekly deduction, what good are them. At the HD I'm employed at, mostly supervisors and mamagement are able to fully enjoy the benefits offered.

Cons

At the HD I labor at, (for the most), only negatives get noted. When management calls on you it is mostly to give you extra working orders or to point out your oversights and mistakes. Mistakes often related to training you never received. "Accentuate the Positive" is a tune they never heard. There is preferential treatment for a few lucky "friends". And you have to be flexible and available to be scheduled to work 7 days a week, randomly between 6AM & 10PM. If you need to find a second job in order to make end meet, you have to become a part-time employee or, like most, just quit.

2.0
Sep 10, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

There are opportunities to learn about all sorts of different areas of home improvement. The pay is decent compared to other retail jobs, and the customer base isn't all that obnoxious. Changing departments within a store helps keep the job interesting. The benefits are decent.

Cons

The people running the company are clearly idiots and that trickles down, inevitably. Your managers, and their bosses, are more likely to be "yes men" than competent, creative, etc. There is not genuine respect for the people at the bottom of the pay scale, who are the vast majority of the people working for the company.

4.0
Sep 9, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

I enjoy working at The Home Depot because in general most of the customers you encounter are grateful for your assistance in just about every department you can be in. As a specialist the designs that I do are unique enough to be interesting which really helps break up the day in day out of this job.

Cons

The worst thing about The Home Depot is the atmosphere of low morale. In my opinion this stems from the reluctance of most managers to make a solid decision and communicate this to the employees. It seems to me most of the middle management (ASM and SM) are so worried about giving the okay to something that could prove to be "wrong" that they would rather pass the buck. Not being in middle management I am not sure what pressures the upper managers (DM) put them under but it seems to be a great deal more than needs to be put on them.

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