The Home Depot reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(55,769 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 55,769 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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4.0
Sep 1, 2008
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Pros

If you have to work in retail, Home Depot is the place to work. They treat their people like people.

Cons

Full time employees face bizarre hours in most cases. The IT side features byzantine technology that mostly dates from the '80's, which can make communicating and doing your job fairly difficult, and the IT guys really have no connection to or communication with their user base. There is a ton of data out there that the stores are dying for, but we really might as well not have computers at all, because in most cases the people who need the information will never have access to it, usually because nobody can even imagine that someone could write a simple script to extract that piece of information and put it in a report of some kind.

1.0
Aug 26, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The people I worked with there were great. Once you get into a supervisory postition, or god forbid management, all hell breaks loose and things just start to unravel.

Cons

You get punished for the things you do wrong harshly, and NEVER awknowledged for the things you do well, or correctly. It's a very negative place to work and after a year or so, I absolutely dreaded going in. I was stacked with more and more complex assignments which I enjoyed, but when I realized I was doing 3 peoples positions (supervisor, employee and expediter) for the price of one, I got irritated.

3.0
Aug 25, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

They tend to recognize people who know what they are doing.

Cons

Regardless of what upper management says, they do not put enough people on the salesfloor and they do not give them real training. As a result, anyone who does not want to do the work of 3 people is working in the wrong place. I will say in their defense that Lowes isn't any better.

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