Walmart reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(142,040 total reviews)
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John Furner

60% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Walmart has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 142,040 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Walmart 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
Oct 8, 2008
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Pros

Management is always helpful when it comes to their associates. I loved their Open Door policy to where anything you said to them was confidential and couldn't be told to anyone else. They also had a lot of other employee help programs to help during hard economic times. Wal-Mart cares about their associates. If you enjoy interacting with people, both the mean and happy ones this is the place to work. Career advancements are always possible as job postings are normally regular. You simply just sign up within the HR department and if your manager sees you as a good fit your a shoe in for the job. What I also liked was when I was working their they did a study on what the base salaries were in competing stores. They raised my hourly rate based on that study.

Cons

When I worked with Wal-Mart the down side was the benefits package wasn't that good, and the people that came to Wal-Mart were usually down right mean and rude.

1.0
Oct 6, 2008
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Pros

I was laid off my job that I went to school for. I could not find a job but Wal-Mart hired me. I've stayed due to that. Over the last few years it has gotten worse. Management has a job to do and its stressful and they pass that on down to the associates. Its horrible!!!

Cons

Management does not care about anything but money. I've been in three stores and this last store, the management team does nothing but walk around at night. When associates need help, they ignore the calls and/or you can't find them. Management expects the overnight associates to do more work with the freight that is humanly possible. No thanks, no nothing, in fact, they take away money from us and hours that we worked. If associates had 42 hours in a work week and the budget calls for only 40 hours, the management team can manipulate the system and take away those 2 hours even though associate worked it. It sucks. The associates do not get enough pay to begin with.

3.0
Oct 5, 2008
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Pros

The pay I receive is better than most places I worked at.

Cons

As a professional optician, still treated as if I were a cashier. The notion that all are created equal at Wal-Mart does not hold if you are an educated professional plus licensed by the state to do your job. Communications- current dept. manager dose not share infor with others in the dept. after management meeting. Feedback- never get any feedback as to how well or improvement opportunities that may be required by me. Work/Life Bal - always work weekends while management has off.

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