Lowe's Reviews

I have been working at Lowe's full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Company does offer great benefits, most of the time your schedule is very flexible.

Cons – hard to get promotions
the company is big on hiring from the outside
management is lazy
very few bonus potentials
hard for women to move up
always short staffed
Sales specialist do not make commission on anything

Advice to Senior Management – mangement staff needs to know their policies and able and willing to help associates out

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Lowe's full-time for more than a year

Pros – Pay is good. Benefits are decent. That's about it.

Cons – Every time there's a release of quarterly financial results where they suck, like usual, compared to Home Depot, there's a knee jerk reaction throughout the company and they feel like they need to fire someone in management to pretend they're doing the right thing just the execution sucks. No vision or means to improve. Always a fear of them closing more stores or laying off more management in"beneficial changes"

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in new stores in great locations. Quit scare tactics on leadership...support them, not scare them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Lowe's full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – There are no pros anymore.

Cons – They will use you until its time to get rid of you.And makeup false accusations,and lie.

Advice to Senior Management – Its not the same managment as I had,10 yrs ago . Whats going on with Store 0118 in Bradley IL. All the longtime fulltime people that were terminated.Dont you know that all these people have family and friends that will never shop at Lowes again.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Lowe's part-time

Pros – I enjoy the customers and the discount

Cons – different hours every day, you close one night and have to be back in to open at 6

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Lowe's

Pros – Don't have to produce to be a team member

Cons – No one is accountable. Just there to collect a check.

Advice to Senior Management – Pull your heads out.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Lowe's part-time

Pros – One pro is the people at the store that I work at. They are nice and friendly which helps.

Cons – There are a lot of cons. I am a cashier and it is very boring especially since it is always slow. Also, the training when you first start stinks. You don't get enough hands-on training. There is never enough support on the sales floor either. They never schedule enough associates in the departments and when you need carry out assistance no one ever comes. Plus they don't have a cart attendant on certain days because their too cheap to hire someone on the days that the full time attendant is off. Another con is how cheap the company is. We run out of supplies, the registers hardly function properly, and a lot of stuff we need to be successful just isn't there. They don't want to spend money on stuff like this.

Advice to Senior Management – Start investing more money into supplies that are needed for associates to be successful. Start scheduling adequately as well.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Lowe's part-time for more than a year

Pros – Pros - Starting salary very generous.
Friendly coworkers.
Nice, big breakroom
Cookout every 60 days without an accident
Nice raise at 90 days and 1 year.
10% employee discount

Cons – Chronic understaffing
No appreciation from management
Store manager incompetent, 40% approval rating
haphazard, exhausting scheduling
no help, ever
Military discounts for ungrateful, demanding old jackasses every 2 minutes
Homeowners who don't know their butt from a hole in the ground
Abuse by hateful, classless customers

Advice to Senior Management – Stop giving the military discount except on Memorial day and Veterans day (like Home Depot does)
You're giving too much money away
Schedule at least one person per department for every shift. You are losing so much money by pissed off customers leaving because there is no one to help them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Lowe's part-time for more than a year

Pros – I have nothing good to share

Cons – Very bad work enviroment employee crazy amount no one every stays for to long

Advice to Senior Management – Watch your store mangers

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Lowe's full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Can't really think of any

Cons – Terrible pay, benefits have been scaled back drastically, arrogant management, promotions are based on whose buddies with who, no work/life balance whatsoever

Advice to Senior Management – Please stop acting like you are so much better than everyone else. We all work retail, it's not like you are in your dream job either.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Lowe's full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – They pay competitive and hire the handicap

Cons – They don't care about their employees and play favorites

Advice to Senior Management – Recognize your people and stop promoting only the the people that suck up to the store managers. Stop mgrs and demote or terminate them for killing a stores moral, sales and profit. Ask your associates what's really going on.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend