The Home Depot reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(55,764 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 55,764 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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5.0
May 17, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Almost entirely promotion from within, making a career with this company is easy if you have the drive and a willingness to learn. Appropriate compensation- competitive with other retailers. Direction and values of the company - strong cash company, makes smart financial decisions that ensure continued growth, values that will surprise you in a retailer (taking care of each other). This is no Walmart, with disgruntled employees. THD makes a point of supporting its employees, rewarding them, supporting its surrounding community, and taking pride in winning over customers. As an example, raising money to help eachother all over the company (untouched by the company), which has had hundreds of thousands of dollars of our CEOs own salary donated to help out. As a manager I can tell you that there is corporate pressure to not only invest time with all employees but to work to move people up with the company; it is an official company program.

Cons

After THD implemented temporary hiring as a seasonal requirement it is more difficult for people to stay on with the company. Associates who stay on are people which are hand selected by their supervisors and managers as solid employees but they enter at basic wages and remain PT for typically quite some time before opportunities for FT become available. While wages are competitive, truly making enough to committ to a career with the company requires moving up to higher paying positions. However, this strategy accelerated stock prices in a home improvement retailer when the country's housing market bottomed out with the economy around 2008. As a company who attracts mostly male applicants, the company works very hard to push females (and other diverse groups) into supervisory positions and typically male dominated areas of the company; this is good and bad as high performing white males are sometimes passed over for promotions when they are comparable to a more diverse candidate. And that is coming from a white female manager. Other than that the Pros and Cons of the job are what you make of them.

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The Home Depot Response
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Thank you for over ten years of hard work and dedication. We appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback. We value strong leadership skills as well.
2.0
Oct 6, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Home Depot still offers such benefits as paid sick time, paid vacation, and health insurance. Opportunities to move up exist, though are limited. Pay for longtime associates is above industry standard. Schedules are somewhat flexible for students.

Cons

The last few years have seen steady declines in health benefit choices, schedule flexibility, starting pay, the size of annual wage increases, opportunities to move from part time to full time, and advancement opportunities, while job responsibilities and accountability for hourly employees continue to increase every year. Recent implementation of a new computer-based scheduling system has been used as an excuse to end flexibility in scheduling for full time associates in many stores, regardless of family obligations that have always been respected in the past. Planned implementation of a new "zone" system for associate placement instead of the current department system threatens to obliterate associate expertise in their assigned specialty and destroy customer confidence. Associates will be expected to know several departments instead of specializing in one or two, causing a "jack of all trades, master of none" effect. Associates will be spread too thin and will be unable to gain enough knowledge about any one department to effectively offer customers useful advice. I believe this will be a disastrous move for the company, will severely effect working conditions and morale among employees, and result in a rapid decline in customer satisfaction. As a customer-facing associate, I feel it is an ill-advised and potentially catastrophic move, and that this is not a good time to join this company if other options are available.

1.0
Jul 5, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

its a job that pays the bills somewhat. If you want to work long hours for little pay you can advance within the company. They do give some nice benefits like cell phone discounts.

Cons

Its a gossip mill, management degrades you, the most of the associates are all sleeping with other associates who work there and don't think anyone knows about it. Some of whom are married. Raises are very low. With the cost of living and fuel rising you'd think they could do something about that. Management doesn't do anything, they sit in their offices all day as do some of the department heads.

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