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 Einzel- & Großhandel industry (3.5 stars).

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56K reviews
2.0
Aug 18, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Incredibly easy work. I used to work for Amazon, and unlike Amazon there are NO strict productivity goals so you do not have to worry about how long your bathroom break is, or talking with co-workers. Be reasonable, but I've never stressed over it. Best health care insurer in the area, BCBS (According to my doctor) Decent time off. You get 4 hours of PTO every month which you can use whenever, without notice. You also get 10 attendance points before termination which fall off after 6 months of the respective callout. Theoretically you could miss at least 30 days (or 300 hours) of worktime each year. 18 days being unpaid and 12 being paid as you get 2 weeks of vacation a year (even as a new hire). This is without talking about leave of absences and how 1 point can always be used for 3 consecutive callouts. Lots of fun people to talk to because of the laid back atmosphere

Cons

Management will never get fired and they know this. Expect them to be the worst part of the job. You have a problem with a supervisor? No one cares. End of story. All the supervisors in your department are friends and there is a culture for them to have each other's back. As they have to coordinate with each other every day. Higher ups like Chad care so little about the stuff their supervisors do that when they gathered feedback from employees about "If they think management is fair" and the answer was a resounding "No" the solution was to hold monthly captive audience meetings with all associates. Essentially using the real grievance as an excuse to crack down on a potential unionization effort.

2.0
Jul 12, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Remote. Decent work life balance outside of deployment nonsense.

Cons

Benefits are okay, PTO is not good enough, pay has not at all kept up with inflation. And then the job its self is too much code monkey with very little problem solving and design. High intensity, high support hour centric deployments right at Christmas and New Years holiday for 2 years in a row. To begin with the company only gives 6 holidays and then ruins 2 of them.

3.0
May 15, 2022

It's alright; 5/10

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Flexible scheduling; good for students, people wanting/needing a second job, whatever. -Not too strenuous work (you will be lifting some heavy stuff, though). -They're pretty good about hiring from within. So there is potential for growth in the company.

Cons

-You will receive a miniscule increase in pay every year, just barely 2%, while newly hired people get paid a dollar more than you. While the CEO got an extra 3 million, a nice 30% pay bump. Nice job, Craig, I'm sure you worked very hard. -Low pay for what you're expected to do/know. They want you to not only be a warehouse worker and a retail worker; moving heavy stuff across the store without the use of machinery for the most part, occasionally operating heavy machinery, bringing heavy stuff down from the overhead to stock the shelves, directing customers where they need to go, etc. But also know be knowledge about everything in your department and the surrounding departments. Wouldn't be so bad if they paid enough to attract anyone but mostly college kids who don't know anything or a few knowledgeable seniors needing the money. Many of whom are usually either busy helping another person. Do you really want to trust a potentially $1,000+ purchase on the input of a guy barely out of high school? -High likelihood of having not enough staff for how busy the store is. Being both under and overstaffed. You're either constantly helping customers and can't get your department cleaned up, which you will be blamed for, or you're done with everything, you and the other 3 people in your department standing around. -Management encourages you to lie on employee surveys. -The music in the store will eventually drive you to insanity.

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