Walmart reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(142,437 total reviews)
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John Furner

57% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Walmart has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 142,437 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
Mar 13, 2014
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Pros

Great new modern looking & feeling offices at the David Glass Center Super cafe at David Glass as well, Starbucks, Subway, Chic-Filet, salad bar and more Lots of opportunity to share ideas and opinions and get hands on with projects Walton Fitness rocks - you would be hard pressed to find a better facility anywhere. Your career direction is in your hands in many ways , just look at the new CEO

Cons

Work-life balance is a challenge at times. - not a bad problem in a slow economic climate. Too much gap between "stated culture" and actual culture - not sure Sam Walton would recognize the organization unfortunately. Seem to have fallen behind the competitors in many fronts especially Amazon. Extremely Weak Technical Leadership in executive positions. Lack of transparency in decision making .....

1.0
Feb 2, 2014

Walmart is kind of a terrible business.

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Pros

-The people I worked with were really cool, but that is different in every stor. -A little money every two weeks is nice. However, aside from that there's not really any other Pros.

Cons

-Management will regularly screw up your schedule. It happened to me, and many of my fellow employees. Walmart does not care what your schedule is. -Walmart takes any chance it can get to spend less money on its employees. Such as contracts which allow them to give you over the max of part-time hours, but without any of the benefits of a full time employee. -Speaking of full time, you will never get a real full time job here. The reason for this is that if you work full time at Walmart you will be given benefits. (I'm not sure what they are, no one explained them to me) and that means Walmart would have to pay enough money for you to survive on which would be bad for them. Why? I'll explain. -Walmart stores Inc. and Sam's Club, and any of their other affiliations want you to stay in poverty because that means you have to keep shopping at their stores, and they get all the money they gave to you back. So they will give you a part time job, pay you minimum wage, not let you unionize, no benefits, and give you the finger if you ever try to move up in the company. I had a fellow employee while I was working there who told me that he was 'promoted' and got a pay cut and worse hours. A quote from him was "Walmart, the only place where you can be promoted, and get payed less." Walmart is tempting when you're getting desperate and need the money, but I can tell you from personal experience that it's not worth it. At any time I can apply to the one in our town again, and I will not. I have run out of money now, can't even pay for gas, and I still won't go back because it is such a terrible business to work for. Do yourself a favor, avoid Walmart and you'll be much happier.

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