The Home Depot reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(55,761 total reviews)
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Ted Decker

66% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

The Home Depot has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 55,761 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The Home Depot employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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56K reviews
1.0
Mar 17, 2017
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Pros

Able to move around from department to department.

Cons

Putting someone in a sales job with no training and expecting high sales volume when scheduling during the slowest hours of the day. They set you up to fail and then write you up for low sales. No commission, just a sales quota that, if you don't meet, you can be fired. And again, they expect this with little to no training and working the slowest hours. They also talk a good game about caring about their employees, but when my husband ended up in the hospital with a serious condition, I was written up for attendance. Seriously this is the worst experience with a company I've ever had. Maybe I'm just used to professional companies that know what leadership really is.

1.0
Oct 31, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Can't think of a single pro.

Cons

This is a top-down organization that doesn't care about your knowledge, experience, opinions, or anything else.. I was used to working for flat organizations where I could contribute and collaborate, but Home Depot doesn't care about your past experience. PTO is not documented, which results in some employees taking more vacation than is supposed to be allowed. It also is a way for Home Depot to not pay their employees any vacation pay. HR is not transparent and will be dishonest with your pay, vacation, and other things.

1.0
Aug 1, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

**Warning** Accept an offer of employment at your own risk. There are a lots of office politics at Home Depot.com (Georgia). Otherwise, this is a good company to work for but some of those in leadership positions; some of the managers, supervisors and team leads, have created a work environment that is full of tension and strife with ritualistic tactics they carry out on a daily basis. It starts at the top and trickles down. Their office politics are a combination of spying on others, brown-nosing, back biting, eaves dropping, gossiping, lying on others and conspiring against those they see as a more qualified and more talented than they. Most of the managers, supervisors and team leads run in cliques and stick together and if one of them don’t like you, they’ll blackball you so that no one else will. The majority of these leaders are very immature, very unprofessional and unqualified to be in their role but the superiors who are largely responsible for promoting such individuals do so as a personal benefit and set out to promote them rather quickly. The environment would remind you a lot of middle-school. On the other hand, if you come to work every day, mind your own business, don’t join cliques, have uncompromising work ethics and carry yourself in a professional manner, more than likely you will be the very one who will be picked apart by your team lead or supervisor on a daily basis about something minuscule. It is common practice that some of the best and brightest people quit soon after they’re hired or end up being fired by one of the leaders who saw them as a personal threat. As you can imagine, the turn-over is very high. Note: this company has a team of social media managers who monitor all social media sites in order to eradicate any negative post made about this company by posting things that say the complete opposite of what is truth about them so don’t be surprised to see an influx of glowing posts.

Cons

(1) The employees do not get employee discounts. (2) Customer service reps are pushed to meet sales quotas but they are NOT paid commission.

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