Great company with good pay and bonus structure - just watch out for rogue, abusive district managers!!
Pros
Great pay and bonus structure, but if you get put in a no-bonus store you may be screwed for a year (until you can turn the store around). There are a lot of great people working at Lowe's. Some store management teams are incredibly strong. The good teams are aggressive, sales-oriented, customer focused, and want to win.
Cons
There are huge variances in the ways HR policies are administered from store to store, and from district to district. It doesn't matter how good you are, if you get on the wrong persons black list they will "find a reason to get rid of you". I have seen it too many times in my store and especially in my district. It all depends on the management team at your store on who your district manager is. There is a wide range in district managers. Some of them are among the very best leaders that I have ever worked for, On the other hand, some are absolute tyrants. One of the DMs in Dallas thinks that the phrase "hold someone accountable" means to scream obscenities at them on the sales floor in front of store associates (hourly AND salaried) and in front of customers. He has even gone as far as throwing items at managements team members in several stores. It is amazing that a grown man of 60 years can get away with acting like this in public. It is even more amazing that he is allowed to act this way while representing Lowe's as a district manager overseeing a district with sales well over $250M a year. There is no accountability here. If you question his behavior to other management you are told "that's just the way that he is". If you push the issue, you will find your job threatened.
