Walmart Reviews in Houston, TX Area

Pros

It was not that bad of a place to work. If you go into Walmart as a college student, try to land a job that is somewhat close to what you are majoring in. The experience, especially if it is in your degree area, looks very good on a resume.

Cons

If you are not in school, expect to work, work, work with little or no direction from upper management.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to lead by example more often. A clear chain of communication is needed so that instructions from upper management are accurately communicated to the workers. Workers want to know why they have to do what they are doing.

Pros

flexible hours, good starting job, good for students

Cons

dealing with unintelligent people, workers and customers

Advice to Senior Management

get degrees

Pros

proximity to home, a job when you need one. The people that work there try very hard to make a difference in a toxic environment.

Cons

There is a massive disconnect with recognition of employees, from simple greetings and small talk to motivating people to go above and beyond. My employee yearly reviews have been jokes, missing pages, and hurry up and get it done mentality. They are not interested in establishing solid relations with customers, they think price will win the day for them always, no matter what the circumstances. A massive infusion of respect is needed from management to employees. Modeling good behavior will lead to better customer service. Stop fearing the employees, embrace and inspire them!

Advice to Senior Management

You should view your job as a chance to motivate and inspire, not as a prison guard. Win employee loyalty and you will get motivated performers.

Pros

You have a great opportunity to grow within the company, and its such a great learning experience that you can move to different departments, and also get trained in various fields to be widely efficient!

Cons

The low wages can sometimes serve as a downside, however the bonuses are righteous!!! After receiving your initial pay rate, you can only move up .40 cents after your anniversary regardless of your abilities, skills, and languages spoken.

Advice to Senior Management

Take some time to really listen to your associates. Communication is key. If we all can listen to different views we can learn so much more!

Pros

As one of the largest companies in the world, Wal-Mart has diverse and extensive career opportunities. Individuals that are company driven can achieve good career progression with excellent compensation.

Cons

Often management associates have poor work life balance which ends up effecting all other areas of their lives and even with such a large company job security is a real concern.

Advice to Senior Management

Change is progressive but straying too far from your roots has hurt the company!

Pros

Walmart is everywhere so you can transfer anywhere you would like. Some of the upper management are nice. Never will go out of business.

Cons

Favoritism, its all about who you know, Lots of disrespectful people, never will be appreciated unless you get a nice manager like i did but i also worked for some pricks too.

Advice to Senior Management

Get to know the higher ups quick and make a good impression. Always keep a paper trail of what you are doing because if you have that one manager then you will need it. Good Luck.

Pros

The job itself wasn't something I disliked. In fact, for what it was, I think my job there was pretty satisfying day to day. It's a great place to be if you want to help people, meet people, anything dealing with people.

Cons

Often times, I found myself under appreciated for the work I did. I helped in whatever way I could and sometimes found myself criticized or punished for a job that wasn't even mine in the first place. I don't mind doing work beyond what is my job description but I at least want to be acknowledged sometimes for it.

Advice to Senior Management

My only advice would be to pay a little more attention to your associates. Ultimately, the customer experience goes hand in hand with how your associates are feeling or performing. Make things comfortable for them and the company prospers.

Pros

Get to meet friendly people.
Employee discount.

Cons

When the customers are mean or cannot read.

Pros

You get to meet all sorts of different people. You can get 40 hours a week easily.

Cons

The pay isnt good. The management wasnt always doing what needed to be done to provide a fair and safe work environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn how to jump in and help sometimes. I was actually told by management that they werent supposed to help any overnight workers actually throw freight, even on a heavy truck night and people have called in. That is ridiculous.

Pros

They have lots of work

Cons

Customers are hard to deal with
Management isn't poperly trained
As an employee, you aren't treated with much respect