Walmart Stores Employee Review

Former Employee – worked at Walmart Stores full-time for more than a year

Pros – 1) Three days on, three days off (8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. shifts) for daytime assistant managers
2) Promotion opportunities abound
3) Reasonable Benefits
4) Employee Stock Purchase Plan
5) 401k match up to 6%
6) 10% Employee Discount Card

Cons – Every store experience is different as the management teams are different. I did not fit in well with the leadership team at my store and was targeted as a result (in my humble opinion).

If you are an independent and free thinking individual who seeks opportunities to prove yourself and stand out among your peers then you might find yourself chided and chastised as a result.

If you can play politics and are willing to let the managers above you look and feel "smarter" than you on a daily basis, then you will undoubtedly increase your advancement opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management – 1) If you truly want to know what your employees at a particular store think about the store and the individual managers at that store, then pull them into a private office setting and ask them their opinions while ensuring confidentiality. If you send someone from the home office into a store and they ask questions on the sales floor or in the back room out in the open you can expect "status quo" answers. Your associates are very concerned about retaliation, because they understand human nature and how it works.

2) Assistant managers and zone merchandising supervisors are often blamed for sales numbers and merchandising decisions made by shift managers and store managers who will stop at nothing to protect themselves and their career(s)! If Walmart truly wants to develop ZMS's and Assistant mangers, then I would suggest that Walmart provide opportunities for these employees to visit with their market managers in a confidential setting without shift managers and store managers present.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company