Home Depot Reviews in Detroit, MI Area

Pros

Great benefits and compensation. Great training techniques and extremely useful when learning about each department and product differentiation.

Cons

Terrible upper management and recognition of work well done. Very unorganized place to work.

Advice to Senior Management

Department heads and managers need to recognize workers more and treat everyone with more respect. Departments need way better organization.

Pros

Recognition with room for advancement with pay increase.

Cons

Being asked where something is; not knowing the entire stock inventory

Advice to Senior Management

None at this time

Pros

If you like to work with tools and home improvement projects this is the place to work.

Cons

not very employee friendly, Lowes is probably a better company all around to work for.

Advice to Senior Management

learn some management skills

Pros

They have great people to work with and great learning opportunities. You can also advance your career in many ways. They are flexible with hours and schedule.

Cons

Start at a low pay, not much of a raise. Only get raises every year, not after 90 days and then 6 months.

Advice to Senior Management

They should only have your department supervisor decide and evaluate you in your review. Not every supervisor should have a say in whether you should be able to be promoted and how much of a raise you should get because not every supervisor in the store sees you work, how hard you work, your sales, work ethics, etc. Only your dept. supervisor sees that the most and they should be able to determine it themselves.

Pros

The customers are friendly and genuine.

Cons

I was ignored basically, then the head cashier wrote me up for cleaning the coffee area that was a complete mess-there was paper towels all over the floor, coffee spilled everywhere-sugar all over the counter as well as creamer spilled everywhere. It is the first thing you see when you walk in the door and since it was literally two feet from my register and I had no customers, I thought I would clean it up. Mistake, I was wrote up for cleaning the coffee area. Extremely rude and petty. I see no advancement I would even WANT from that company!

Advice to Senior Management

Quit eating donuts on the floor, and use your brain when someone is trying and going above and beyond to do something.

Pros

Retirement Plan (401k)
Scheduling around school

Cons

Lack of communication within management
Lack of praise for excellent work

Advice to Senior Management

Instead of indirectly communicating with associates, speak face-to-face

Pros

then benefits are good and pay is reasonbale

Cons

the hours stink but you get use to it

Advice to Senior Management

teach and train your associates more

Pros

Fairly easy to get requested time off.
Can be fun if you feel talkative, or sarcastic.
Fairly relaxed place to work

Cons

Employee discount? Not any more!
Better hope you're full time. Part timers are treated like pond scum.
Don't make weekend plans, You'll work every weekend.

Advice to Senior Management

What's it going to be, customer service, or department maintenance. We are understaffed and expected to do the work of 3 people.

Pros

Excellent pay, flexible scheduling, great benefits, good opportunity for advancement. Overall a great company to work for. Would recommend to anyone looking for employment who like to work with people.

Cons

Consistency between the management staff, feel under appreciated at times. Some of the employees that work there can get away with being lazy, particularly the department supervisors.

Advice to Senior Management

I would say that in my particular store the management staff could be more appreciative and not so negative all the time. The store manager always seems to be in a bad mood and really does not know how to talk to people.

Pros

Decent pay
Good training
Emphasis on customer service
Other employees are friendly and like to help each other

Cons

Managers don't care for associate level input
Department heads are overworked
Managers have been known to come to work drunk
Too much emphasis on cutting hours, cross department placement and training.

Advice to Senior Management

Alcohol has no place in the workplace
Listen to associate level input