Walmart Stores Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Walmart Stores

Pros – Lots of opportunity to advance in the company and to relocate anywhere in the US

Cons – Can be more difficult to get information and answers to your questions

Current Employee – been working at Walmart Stores full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Scope and reach is outstanding if you really want to make a difference in peoples lives.

Cons – Such a large company it is difficult to manage thru all the politics to get things accomplished.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Walmart Stores full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Excellent place to work at Walmart

Cons – Benefits inadequate particularly the health care benefits.

Current Employee – been working at Walmart Stores full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Solid, growing Company. Very good job security in a troubled economy. Provides several options for benefits to help match your needs

Cons – Terrible scheduling, good luck getting two days off in a row; high pressure work load with low pay, high pressure on the associates that perform while letting under performing associates slide.

Advice to Senior Management – have your assistant push under performing associates to pick it up instead of continually riding the over performing associates to pick up the slack. Stocking should not be a super high pressure job. You are losing good employees due to this tactic.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Walmart Stores full-time for more than a year

Pros – Flexible enough for College students
Easy to get promoted
Yearly raises
Job can transfer if you move

Cons – Have to change stores to enter management

Advice to Senior Management – none.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Walmart Stores full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great People, Great Company. Going Places

Cons – Different management styles sometimes led to different directions.

Advice to Senior Management – Work on promoting from with in.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Walmart Stores part-time for more than a year

Pros – everyone gets along, flexible hours, a lot of charity work

Cons – so many employees, relationships outside walmart are not encouraged

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Walmart Stores full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – This is a great place to learn retail or even step into management. This one of the only jobs left that you dont have to have a degree to be in management for those who do not pursue post secondary education.

Cons – Pay is not all that great for those with degrees, overworked at times. Company is too cheap to be the one of the largest employers, and to make the profit that they make.

Advice to Senior Management – None

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Walmart Stores full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Salary and the opportunity to interact with great associates. Ability to grow your career to a certain extent

Cons – Open door policy only applies to associates up to a certain pay grade. New practice of hiring people from outside who consistently try to implement their own strategies rather than corporate direction, and their willingness to dispose of experienced talent rather than learning from them.

Advice to Senior Management – The dedicated management associates running your stores are the ones who receive the least amount of respect and are listened to the least.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Walmart Stores full-time for more than a year

Pros – Excellent blue collar industrial pay in distribution center

Cons – High turnover, lots of policies with clear intention to avoid employeee retention.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend