WalMart Canada Reviews

Former Employee – worked at WalMart Canada

Pros – Amazing Co-workers, make me laugh and taught me a lot every shift. Great Experience. I love the people.

Cons – Management was awful. Disorganized and not understanding at all. Did't know how to manage workers and were often rude to everyone.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at WalMart Canada part-time for less than a year

Pros – great benefits, fantastic profit sharing options, RSP contributions very good. Fun place to learn and never get fired from

Cons – long work week. non negotiable availability. sometimes very disorganized

Advice to Senior Management – listen more. talk less put away your clipboard and roll up your sleeves.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at WalMart Canada part-time for more than a year

Pros – flexible hours
ability to switch departments quite easily

Cons – depending on what department you work in, there is a chance that you are disconnected from management. In my department, we are a "specialty" area, so we don't get to know or speak to management much.

Advice to Senior Management – It would be appreciated if all associates were able give suggestions and feedback, some associates rarely if ever go to meetings.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at WalMart Canada for less than a year

Pros – The managers are very friendly. It feels good to be aprt of a team. It provides 10% employee discount which might not seem a lot but at the end of the month one can save quite a bit.

Cons – It is sometimes very stressful with customer overload. The stores are always busy. Often there are not enough employees in the store which makes the situation worse.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at WalMart Canada part-time for less than a year

Pros – Stock options, friendly people, flexible hours, employee discount.

Cons – My area was a little slow. Too may people hired to do the same job.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at WalMart Canada part-time for more than a year

Pros – Great job for students or anyone needing a little extra money. Hours can be restricted if need be. If time off is needed with enough notice, it appears they try to give it to you Good sized lunch rooms with frees coffee,tea for employees. Donuts, muffins appear every once in awhile, I believe for the most part it is a good place to work compared to some of the big box stores.

Cons – Wages even though they pay just over minimum wage, there are some positions that do not get paid enough for the jobs they do. Don't expect to live well working here if you have no other income.

Advice to Senior Management – It would be great to have equipment that is in good working condition, the store I work in has scale problems and it slows the cashiers down and frustrates the customers, the CSM's do not have proper phones to communicate with each other on the floor so that as well does not let the front end as s,lot holy as it could. Management needs to come out of back office around dinner time and see the lineups and frustrated people because all the cashiers are leaving at that time with no one starting... Line ups = ticked off customers

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at WalMart Canada full-time for less than a year

Pros – Lots of room for advancement
Open door policy
Friendly management
Strive for excelence

Cons – some employees dont really care about doing their job because walmart is so friendly they become to lax

Advice to Senior Management – Maybe touch base with employes on a one on one base as well as group meetings, some people are remiss to say anything bad about fellow employees because they dont want to "create waves"

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at WalMart Canada part-time for more than a year

Pros – - coworkers become like family
- flexible hours [to an extent]
- room to grow if willing to put in the time and effort
- standard wages with yearly profit-sharing bonus
- generally friendly assistant managers
- job security

Cons – - too much pressure on middle management, which is then taken out on lower-level workers
- upper management barely know lower-level workers' names
- expectation of managers that Walmart is what their employees' entire lives revolve around
- budget is terrible even when store is doing well; "everyday low prices" means cutting hours, making associates work several departments at a time, giving part-timers full-time hours to avoid giving benefits
- department managers who don't understand the above and expect associates to get all of the work in their departments done despite understaffing
- initial training consisted of tiresome computer-based learning modules and no actual face-to-face training, so first few months are rough (esp. when answering customers' questions); being able to learn fast and on your own is essential
- barely anyone gets fired, which means job security, but also terrible workers whose incompetence other workers have to make up for
- customers, of course, suck (but that's all retail jobs); people have a tendency to treat Walmart associates like scum
- altogether, decent job for a student (at lower levels), but definitely not a position you want to be stuck in for the rest of your life (move up or get yourself an education and leave)

Advice to Senior Management – to upper management
- realize that cost-cutting is easy when it doesn't affect you
- have some empathy and realize your workers are human beings
- acknowledge a job well done

to lower management
- don't take it out on us

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at WalMart Canada

Pros – This company has good profit sharing, and flexible hours. The environment was good to work in and the pay is above minimum wage.

Cons – It is a very busy atmosphere, and the management is not always great. Customers also expect to be right all the time

Advice to Senior Management – Ensure more consistency among management

Current Employee – been working at WalMart Canada part-time for less than a year

Pros – The discount card 10% off!! Profit-sharing, the 'invested' interest in you(if you are there for two years, they start a 'fund' for you that builds over time for when you retire (or quit)? This is probably a good company if you wish to stay I retail.... Apparently you can work your way through the organization too...

Cons – Hard on the back (I'm a cashier for now.). Lots of middle management, although to be fair, this is a huge store and has 500 employees.... I've been here for a month and feel a little hassled to go faster. I'm not a slow cashier, but I'm not a machine either.... Training is less than great and is unorganized. I worked a grocery store for a much smaller company. Their cashier training was much more formal and thorough, although I wasn't a cashier there... You can be relatively anonymous there, since there are 500 employees and if you have some anti-social tendencies, if can be a be a bit lonely..

Advice to Senior Management – More thorough training for cashiers. Too many unanswered questions about day to day situations

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend