Walmart reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(142,281 total reviews)
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John Furner

58% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Walmart has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 142,281 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 Einzel- & Großhandel industry (3.5 stars).

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142K reviews
3.0
Apr 17, 2013

not too bad

Recommend
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Pros

Advancement for people who put in the time, great health benefits for full timers, good pay once you move up with the company

Cons

terrible work/life balance for management, at walmarts beck and call 24/7, policies that change on the fly and no help from upper levels at home office to address the changes, terrible pay for the lower levels of the company.

1.0
Apr 10, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

- Made great friends - Learned new customer service skills

Cons

- Management is hateful, spiteful, does not care about you. Will yell at you and belittle you in front of customers, accuse you of lying, coach you for things you didn't do, guilt trip you, schedule you outside of your available hours (especially as a student). - Customers see you as the lowest of the low. Assume you are worthless because you work for this company. - Store is drab and dreary, it's heartbreaking just walking inside. Even now, and I don't even work there anymore. I can feel the misery. - Very bad work/life balance, especially for part-timers who WILL work every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Missed out on a lot of fun things that friends were doing because I had to work until 11:00 PM or later. - Management wants you to put Walmart above everything else in your life. Family, friends, and school- does not matter because Walmart should be your #1. - New employees are hired at a higher wage than people who had been working there for 10 years. (I worked there for four years and was making $10.55, new employees were being hired at over $11)

1.0
Feb 27, 2013

Lack of Leadership

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some people are genuinely nice. There is a dry cleaner and Timmy’s onsite. The building is right off of highway 401.

Cons

It is a very phony and backstabbing environment. The Marketing Directors are somewhat nice to your face but will throw you under the bus in a heartbeat. Kill or be killed. Nobody knows what is going on and it is extremely unorganized with no communication or process. You work frantically on projects that go nowhere. No job security, they fire and let-go of people constantly here. You have to buy your own supplies unless you want to dig for grimy used supplies that are at least 10 years old. I almost fell down the staircase tripping over duct tapped carpet on the steps. There is no parking and the office is dingy and dirty. No work life balance.

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