Home Depot Reviews in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Area

Pros

High Paying Job For the Industry. Feel part of the family and they do training in all departments once a month. Knowledge is power.

Cons

Will work you to death during the busy season and cut all the new employees from spring hire in the winter. So don't expect a permanent job unless you hire on with them as a Store Opener.

Advice to Senior Management

Home Depot needs to screen their management for attitude. Those thinking that they are holier than thou due to their management position. Many very good people have had to leave the company due to ridiculous reasons because a manager was big headed.

Pros

Good hours and fast paced enough to hardly ever get boring.

Cons

Crappy pay and managers can be cut throat when the pressure is on them to perform.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop hiring the first set of stoners that apply and stop treating your employees like pawns in some sad retail game that no one is playing outside of managment.

Pros

The best reasons to work at Home Depot are the computer educational trainning, health insurance benefits, the stock investment opportunities and the employee crisis support.

Cons

The schedule for part time associates varies, the part time benefits are less than full time benefits and the time is limited to fully complete assigned tasks.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer as much concern and courtesy to the employees, as is taught to offer to the customers and employees, will in turn, naturally pass it on to the customers to a higher degree. Praise and approbation is key to excellence in employee/employer relationships and to the increase in the quality of customer service.

Pros

Great work environment and benefits fun workplace good employee recognition below the salaried positions. I would have rated higher if management compensation was better.

Cons

Although home depot is employee friendly on the hourly level I believe management level employees did not receive the same experience in regards to pay and recognition.

Advice to Senior Management

My recommendation for the home depot leadership would be to reward the faclility leadership staff along the lines of compensation and recognition.

Pros

Great core values, and policies
Associates and Managers take care of eachother
A family environment

Cons

everyone who is in Atlanta, they are completly disconnected to what happens in the field.

Advice to Senior Management

make more store visits, unannounced, so you caan see the REAL home depot, not some dog and pony show

Pros

It is a steady job with a steady pay, the hours are consistent and the job is simple and expectations are quite reasonable.

Cons

It is useless to have a degree and be stuck as an associate within home depot. Advancement is limited and there is extremely limited value given for education.

Advice to Senior Management

Seek to expand associates on the basis of education and such. Many simple tasks are fumbled by coworkers who cannot follow directions or don't have the work ethics or patience to do certain tasks.

Pros

It's a Job. The Customers can be frustrating at times, but it's fun solving their problem.The company's goals are admirable, but when they trickle down to the store level, they're non-existent.

Cons

Management is unsympathetic. Different standards for different associates. promotion and praise for lazy associate, and ridicule to hard workers. Despite what they say, customers are not 1st priority. I've made that mistake before and have gotten written up for it.

Advice to Senior Management

Look at the Cons, and that pretty much sums it up. treat your associates with respect, and don't be an arrogant jerk.

Pros

Job security
Benefits were good, lots of volume benefits that can be used for fitness clubs, phone plans, etc.
Comradarie
Short commute
Work with you in terms of transfer

Cons

Technology is way behind and many processes are inefficient and frustrating.
Much of the leadership is young and have no clue how to deal with people issues: the most important and difficult aspect of management.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer better leadership seminars. Focused on managing people, not resources or money. The people are your most important asset, treat them accordingly.

Pros

if you like balancing 5 things at once, while still having to be nice and friendly, the service desk is great. there is always plenty to keep yourself busy with. you have the ability to get onto the floor, and not have to know a thing.

Cons

you on occasion get angry customer, which I personally promptly send to a salaried manager. how busy it can be can sometimes be overwhelming.

Advice to Senior Management

management hardly recognizes your hard work. they don't communicate issues with you. they say customer first, customer first, but when there's an actual customer they're hiding in the back office.

Pros

You are given alot of opportunities to take initiative in situations. You are "empowered". There is always something to learn.

Cons

It seems as though promotions are given on a basis of "popularity". Kissing alot a** and being a fake will get you alot further than being a knowledgable, skillful, hardworker who's not afraid to tell them what you want.

Advice to Senior Management

You have 2 good, promotable workers. One is 20, has a girlfriend, no kids, no college education, and no management experience. The other is 30, has a wife, 3 kids, an associates degree in business, and 4 years management experience. Why does the first recieve the promotion? Your ethics have been distorted by your favoritism.