3.0
3 Aug 2014
Former employee, more than 8 years
Hanover Park, IL
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Working at Menards offered a great hands-on experience for me. Their training programs, in-store management team (the good managers anyway), product training, and working with customers regularly allowed me to learn so much about home improvement, construction processes, managing a successful team, team-work, and customer service. My great team made the experience worth it.
Cons
The long hours that department and store managers were/are expected to work are rough, and sick days were unheard of. The corporate management team never seemed to recognize the employees as people. I've known a few great managers that moved up to store management levels, just to be demoted shortly after due to minor disagreements with corporate.