Home Depot Reviews in Sacramento, CA Area

Pros

it's always busy so if you like people, like I do, you'll always have something to do! Management is very fair as well.

Cons

Sometimes I start work too early.I am constantly moving around and it can get really exhausting after a while.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to remain committed to the development of its employees. Assigning each new employee to shadow a experienced one for the day would be nice every so often. You can learn a lot that way!

Pros

The people make Home Depot. Each store is fille dwith amazing talented people.

Cons

Focus on negative. Very little positive feedback.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees, ask them for their opinion. They know what they are doing.

Pros

Great people.
Good service.
Lots of growth potential.
Nice 401k and employee stock option plan.
Tuition reimbursement for full-time employees.

Cons

Dusty old warehouse environment.
High turnover of staff and management.
Old out-date systems and procedures.
Terrible work-life balance.
Terrible annual pay raises.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in new systems and procedures, update processes for inventory management, and clean up your stores please. Also spend less money on CEO and executive staff salaries and give better performance raises to your store employees.

Pros

Fun environment. The people are friendly and down to earth. The job is easy and challenging at the same time. There was always room for learning new things. Management were very fair and consistent. Working there was like working with your family. The scheduling was very fair (almost too) and all of the management supported associates continuing their education.

Cons

There were opportunities for better training before sending new associates to the sales floor. Some of the operational processes were unnecessary and time consuming. There were reports for reports for reports.... if you get my drift. The computer system was slowly being upgraded, but needed better technology sooner that could increase productivity and reduce down time.

Advice to Senior Management

As a former member of management I would say that there was always an opportunity to increase the communication of new information and training.

Pros

Great Benefits for all associates including part time associates.

Cons

Required to work too many hours for little recognition.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide positive feedback and less blaming.

Pros

Benefits, nothing else left to say.

Cons

Bottom line means more then loyalty to long term employees!!!!!!

Advice to Senior Management

Long term employees built up the customer service that Home Depot advertises, Home Depot should be loyal to them.

Pros

Customers and co-workers are the best and the worst... lots of love from your co-workers and no love from management unless you have an exceptional person who hasn't gotten smart enough to leave the place.

Cons

There is a lot of backstabbing and people throwing each other under the bus; no training unless you crawl around and find things out for yourself, tons of online (read here BORING) training to do, not much hands on until you are thrown to the dogs. Capricious actions on management and human resources managers have been the end of many careers here, lots of good people great at their jobs are unceremoniously dumped because a manager is in a corner and needs to either step up and take responsibility for not training people (fat chance) or knifing someone in the back. Seen it again and again.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the dead weight you have doing nothing at the assistant store manager level as well as the back-stabbing department managers who don't know their jobs and couldn't lead an ant to sugar. Look at your performers at the department level and expend some resources on developing them. Put more aprons on the floor and fewer in the top office. Toss your worthless store managers and promote the ops managers who really run the store in 1/2 of your locations.