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 Einzel- & Großhandel industry (3.5 stars).

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56K reviews
2.0
Sep 10, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

employees who really care people trying to do what is right employees who strive to do the best they can

Cons

outsourcing as much as they can to India and outside vendors replacing employees with H1B contractors every chance they get new management treats employees like dirt

3.0
Jul 30, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Home Depot has an ever-shifting culture and the pendulum has largely swung toward customer and associate value. The people are great. There is a wealth of interesting projects, ideas, technologies.

Cons

There remains a complete break in communication between upper and middle management, teams consistently work toward artificial dates and are governed by weak leaders. Work-life balance does not exist, there is minimal recognition, and career advancement is driven almost solely by politics.

2.0
Jul 3, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The stock is pretty good. Also tere is a certain formula you can follow to def get promoted: Don't socialize with your coworkers! Management does not like to mingle with the commoners, so just do your job and dont get caught up w the soap operas that go on there. Especially no dating anyone! If you simply do your duties, NEVER let them see you on break or standing around, and keep applying for advancement, you WILL get it eventually. I would even say start applying for promotions as soon as you get there. Because, they almost always reject you the 1st couple of times, so the sooner you get it out of the way the better. I've seen them promote people to dept manager in as little as 3mths after they got there! and from there, they can go to asst store manager, and make 45-60k without so much as a college degree. A store manager starts at 60k but bonuses anywhere from 15-25k a year. It will piss off everyone else, but stick to the formula and you can make pretty good money. It retail is ok with you... but I cannot emphasize enough to not enter a social circle there

Cons

Senior management is pretty competent, but you will hardly ever see them unless you become a store manager. And store management is def luck of the draw. (Read formula for success above), Literally anyone can become a store manager, and whether or not they are actually qualified for it is pretty much a gamble... And plus its retail, enough said

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