Walmart Reviews in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Area

Pros

The senior management team provides for a positive work environment and are innovative with ideas on how to better serve the customers and employees. Many employees have worked for the company for a minimum of 3 years so a long term position within the company is acheivable. An associate can transfer to Walmart in other locations and Human resources if very good with assisting in this area.

Cons

One of the downsides is the traffic because the job is located near two major highways and police tend to choose the parking lot to meet quotas. The benefits package in my opinion could be better, no vision insurance for any walmart employee at the current time.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior management should allow associates to rate their supervisors' performance. This should include, but not limited to, interpersonal skills and proper training for each position.

Pros

Suprisingly, the people I worked with were very nice, and the store was clean.

Cons

There is always some hierarchy of managers jumping down the next persons throat, constantly demanding more, more and more.

Advice to Senior Management

Be sure you don't work your workers to death.

Pros

Easy, steady work. You don't need to worry about losing your job unless you steal or do something really dumb.

Cons

Management promotes the dumbest people as leads. They get promotes because they have family in the position or are friends with the manager.

Advice to Senior Management

Promote people based on merit, not because you're drinking buddies. And give people merit raises, you would see people work harder.

Pros

Excellent pay. I made $8.50 when I started in 2007, and when I transferred to another store two years later I was making $10.70. The other store was in a higher income neighborhood, and when I transferred there I was paid $11.80 an hour. When I finally left Walmart upon graduating college that summer, I was making $12.30 an hour. I was "only" a cashier the entire time I was with Walmart.

Excellent job for a college student like myself. If I ever needed more or less hours, certain days off or a schedule change, management was always very supportive of me and worked with me.

Great advancement opportunity and benefits. My mom started out as a cashier there five years ago and is now an assistant manager of an entire Walmart store. She is doing very well and has received thorought training every step of the way. The benefits she received through Walmart were AWESOME and provided full coverage for our family as well as a 401K. Her insurance has covered everything for all of us and completely provided for braces for all of the kids.

Cons

It is not the most prestigious job when you are starting out with the company, usually, unless you are hired into management.

As you are working in retail, sometimes customers are not very nice.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to promote from within, so that all of the management will have worked their way through the company from the ground up.

Pros

Very stable job
flexible hours

Cons

no room for growth and advancement
managers promote their favorites
very unorganized
managers are unaware of how to do the job they asking of the employees

Advice to Senior Management

Become more knowledgeable
speak to employees with more respect
be more fair

Pros

Only good thing was that I became good friends with my coworkers right away. Other than that there were no good aspects of this company.

Cons

Management was never on track or focused. They couldn't keep track of barely anything that was going on; very unprofessional. They were very unclear on tasks and deadlines. The management showed extreme favoritism. The INS was badly disorganized. Very rude management (unless you were one of the "favorites".

Advice to Senior Management

The leadership needs to know how to lead the team and not just mess around and "hang-out" with they kiss ups and make everyone else do the work.

Pros

Training in some fields are better than others at Walmart. Hourly associates usually learn with time, through coachings, trial and error. Not alot of emphasis on training hourly associates. I enjoyed the experience of meeting and working with people of diverse backgrounds and cultures, developing relationships and networking.

Cons

Respect for one another is not a common practice, retaliation is happening, favoritism is alive and well...doesnt seem like you can trust management in the store.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your people right, dont retaliate- it's wrong, favor everyone not just a few, have integrity yourself

Pros

when i was there nice employees everyone was willing to help, easy work

Cons

now structure has changed not like it used to be, more work less pay because of economy, managers ignorant straight from school no experience on sales floor when they are first hired.

Advice to Senior Management

learn how to work the sales floor

Pros

taken care of me. pay. four weeks of vacation

Cons

working Sundays
training
time to do managerial duties

Advice to Senior Management

listen to associates.

Pros

the chance to move up in to an hourly management position is there with the right attitude. They are constantly hiring

Cons

Depending on the size of the store you will have to be ready to cover multiple departments at any given moment. There is always a lack of employees hence the constantly hiring

Advice to Senior Management

Only advice I can give is to learn the telxon and all of its functions as its becoming a major tool.