Home Depot Reviews

Pros

Great working environment.
Advancement for job knowledge is readily available to all associates.
Ability and access to work in other departments.
Great structure from the corporate level advising employees of company programs and concerns.

Cons

Not enough time to learn product knowledge.
Department Supervisors should only be allowed to work as managers on duty when their own departments are fully staffed and customer ready.
Pay for part-time are not incentive for new hires.

Advice to Senior Management

More aprons on the floor and take better care of departments reference shelf and isle maintenance.

Pros

Home Depot really does promote from within. They have excellent and continuous training programs. There are enough variety of departments and jobs that one could move around to find the best fit. Home Depot is flexible enough to allow that, to grow and find your niche. Home Depot also allows a person to be human in that if there is an issue, management will try to work with you and help solve that issue. There are times when the schedule can be made more flexible if there is good reason.

Cons

Because Home Depot really is big on customer service, they sometime allow the stores to stay open well past the closing time to accommodate stragglers. Most employees work hard and are ready to go home at closing time.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more conscientious about closing the store at the posted hour so employees can feel good about working a hard day knowing that at 10PM, management is looking out for them and that they get home to their families.

Pros

Monetary incentives/bonuses
Good managers
Personable employees
Manageable workload

Cons

Online training program has glitches
Unpredictable schedule with little flexibility

Advice to Senior Management

No advice; they are doing a great job

Pros

great benefits
good pay
good people to work with
room for advancement

Cons

acknowledgement of good performance could be better

Advice to Senior Management

recognize good work more

Pros

Great atmosphere
 opertunities to advance

Cons

Long hours
physical strain
small chance of making goals

Advice to Senior Management

cut down the number of minium hours AM's must work.

Pros

The employee's are great to work with. They work around your home life. Pay benefits are really a huge advantage.

Cons

The lack of employee's to complete daily task that are given to increase store metrics, which are what we are held accountable for.

Pros

A company with a long history of customer focus, a stable future and a vision that is bringing it back to the new glory days. Rubbing elbows with some of the most talented people I have ever known. Home Depot has successfully transitioned to a new Senior Leadership team that has a strong vision of how to regain what was lost under the previous administration.

Cons

Communications can be weak at times, hours can be long and reorganizations are frequent. At times if can be very unclear why some leaders are where they are.

Advice to Senior Management

Be very careful of leaders who have too strong of an opinion, confidence is good, being sure that you know the one true path can be a recipe for disaster.

Pros

the company truly cares about its employees. they like to have frequent events to keep the environment exciting a new.

Cons

parking can be difficult if you arrive at the wrong time of day, typically between 9-10am Monday thru Thursday. n/a

Advice to Senior Management

none. the leadership is very knowledgeable and trust worth. they work well as a team an understand how to help benefit the company as a whole

Pros

Good benefits help offset the low pay. There is a great feeling of community which helps us all get through the ups and downs of life.

Cons

The poor pay coupled with the difficulty to upgrade from part time to full time. There is never enough coverage to handle the needs of the customers without being rushed and feeling the need to get to the next question in line.

Advice to Senior Management

Theft is so bad and the training stresses that the best lost prevention is good customer service so put enough people on the floor to cover the customers with incredible service.

Pros

dependable was paid okay and good conditions

Cons

did not think they would cut staff due to slow economy but they did, now i need to find some thing