Walmart reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(142,290 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 142,290 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
2.0
May 2, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

2x 15 minute paid breaks

Cons

*Unpaid lunch break *Almost no chance of promotion. You, as a teamlead, will not get a salaried position unless your are a kiss-ass teamlead. Your hard work ethic and fair unbiased leadwrship doesn't mean anything to the bosses. *Useless health coverage *Unrealistic expections *We're called "management" when something needs to get done, but the salaried bosses just sees us as hourly slaves that they can push their own work off onto. *Expected to essentially be a Coach with Coach-like responsibility without the coach authority or coach pay/benefit (speaking specifically about the Overnight TLs, not the day shift TLs) * With only 1 overnight coach, they work only 4 nights a week, it leaves the overnight TL aka an hourly, to run the entire store and shift without a salaried member of management to oversee things, yet expect things to run perfectly smoothly. So there's only a boss in the store on overnights about 160 days a year-the other 200 days...it's on us! (nvm, the overnight coach is there even less than that b/c the coaches get about 6 weeks of vacay a year, so every 8 weeks or so, they take a week (10 days total) off.

3.0
Mar 10, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

• Free College Degree – The education benefit is hands down the best thing about working here. I earned my bachelor’s degree for free, which made the experience worth it. • Steady Paycheck – If you just need a job, Walmart will always have hours available. • Flexible for Students – If you're in high school or college, the scheduling can be decent.

Cons

• Mindless, Repetitive Work – The job is essentially rinse and repeat every shift, with no reward for doing it well. • Treated Like a “Body” – Management refers to us as "bodies" rather than employees, making it clear we’re just warm bodies filling a shift. • Toxic Work Culture – Gossip, favoritism, and lack of respect for associates are the norm. If you’re not in management’s good graces, don’t expect fair treatment. • No Recognition, Just Criticism – Exceed expectations? No one notices. Fall slightly short? Immediate chastisement. • Customer Service Hurts Your Metrics – Helping customers (as corporate promotes) actually lowers your performance scores because it slows you down. • Promotions Are a Joke – Climbing the ladder is about playing politics and sucking up, not hard work or leadership.

2.0
Jun 21, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

You can tell them how you need your schedule set up and they will work with you cause they need people badly at all times so it doesn't matter what time you pick even though you still gotta work weekends

Cons

Terrible management, rude coaches, leaders and some of the coworkers, no raises unless they raise minimum wage. They put me on self check out pretty much all the time cause they never had any other cashier that wanted me to do it, would blame for all the theft that would happen there when this wasn't even on my job description, would never let me use the restroom cause there's nobody to cover for me, I'd have to beg to get my breaks and to go home when it was time to. You had coaches and leaders yelling at you all the time. The day I quit, they called me in the cash office, closed the door and yelled at me like crazy like I owed them some satisfaction, I was never so humiliated my whole life.. The work environment is a mess, people call in all the time, they are always short on staff and the list goes on.

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