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66% of the CEO
Robert A. Niblock
I worked at Lowe's full-time for more than 10 years
Pros – Competitive benefits package as far as variety and pricing. Investment in technology was a win. Employee self service portals including timekeeping were beneficial.
Cons – Unrealistic expectations by upper management, they need to spend more time actually in the store and less time in their ivory towers. Inconsistent accountability.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-05-28 12:48 PDT
I worked at Lowe's full-time for more than 7 years
Pros – Some of the good reasons are they hire more full time people than does most retail jobs has some good benefits like a 401k and dental
Cons – They don't respect workers not willing to be flexible with schedule they find reasons to fire people in this past year they fired almost half of the front end staff including people who have been there up to 10 years some for being late only a few times even though they said they couldn't even work certain times cause of transpiration issues some for not being friendly enough others for small things and they won't work with you if you have availability issues like can not work certain days or hours cause of other job or familly issues they are all about corporate they even let the store manager go where I was who everyone liked and saw him after he got job at other company and he said how happy he was to be somewhere they appreciate people.
Advice to Senior Management – To show more concern and work with employess on stuff like availability and scheduling and show appreciation for the work that they do
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-05-27 14:33 PDT
I worked at Lowe's full-time for less than a year
Pros – Nice co-workers great environment to meet and help people
Cons – Sometimes you have to fight to get hours and/or your hours change and you're not aware till the last minute
Advice to Senior Management – Need better department managers that act like they want to be there
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
2013-05-28 11:18 PDT
I have been working at Lowe's full-time for more than a year
Pros – you get to meat a lot of people and see diffrent places
Cons – trying to get out the store takes a long time and that makes you run behind
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-05-23 17:20 PDT
I have been working at Lowe's full-time for more than 7 years
Pros – Good Pay
Team atmosphere
Great Customer Service ethics
Cons – Overly long days
Unrealistic expectations
Product Availability
Advice to Senior Management – To all Store Managers, quit micro managing your teams. You put ASM's and DM's in position because you have the most trust in them, right? Sure does not feel like you guys are enabled by your Market Managesr or RVP's to shake hands, kiss babies, and be out in the community. Instead you are spending all day stressing about the next visit and micro-managing processes and people. Loosen up, take a breath, and enjoy what you do!
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-05-22 06:30 PDT
I have been working at Lowe's part-time for less than a year
Pros – They have really good benefits.
Cons – You can suffer at the hands of those who do not have an idea what happens out on the sales floor, even if they are working in the same store!
Advice to Senior Management – Get connected to what is happening in your own store, and don't tell lies.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-05-22 06:57 PDT
I have been working at Lowe's full-time for more than 3 years
Pros – Lowe's is a good company to work for because if you do your job there is always opportunity to move upward in the company.
Cons – You will always be asked to do things outside of your basic job description, if you want to work for Lowe's you just have to accept the fact that you are going to have to cross train in all of your surrounding departments and be able to multi talk well in order to be successfull in the long term with the company.
Advice to Senior Management – Create a better avenue for employees to give feedback to the corporate office. The big focus of this would be on planagram issues and other merchandise types of concerns that don't always seem to be implemented in the most efficient way from the corporate level. If local stores had a little more flexablity in this area they could taylor the layout and merchandising in their stores more to local demand.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-05-19 17:28 PDT
I worked at Lowe's part-time for more than 3 years
Pros – good pay, flexible hours, great benefits, many job opportunities, understanding managers, many breaks throughout the day, and great people to work with
Cons – difficult customers at times, inconsistent scheduling, not as many raises as I wanted or expected, after almost three years only got to 9.19/hour
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-05-16 09:38 PDT
I have been working at Lowe's part-time for more than a year
Pros – Have a chance to move up within.
Cons – Hours. And the hiring system based on points rather rhen experience and knowledge
Advice to Senior Management – Listen to employees.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-05-15 20:11 PDT
I have been working at Lowe's full-time for more than 7 years
Pros – great work environment, they hire for excellence so co-workers are awesome, management staff is very helpful
Cons – working 3 out of every 4 weekends if you are full time, training process can be dull
Advice to Senior Management – continue doing what you are doing
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-05-14 09:30 PDT
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