Great place to work if you don't mind being thrown under the bus, being undercompensated and being led by idiots. - Pro Account Sales Associate The Home Depot Employee Review

2.0
22 Oct 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Customers and co-workers are the best and the worst... lots of love from your co-workers and no love from management unless you have an exceptional person who hasn't gotten smart enough to leave the place.

Cons

There is a lot of backstabbing and people throwing each other under the bus; no training unless you crawl around and find things out for yourself, tons of online (read here BORING) training to do, not much hands on until you are thrown to the dogs. Capricious actions on management and human resources managers have been the end of many careers here, lots of good people great at their jobs are unceremoniously dumped because a manager is in a corner and needs to either step up and take responsibility for not training people (fat chance) or knifing someone in the back. Seen it again and again.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
24 Apr 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The Home Depot has a solid moral compass. They aren't about sacrificing their ethics for the sake of a sale, which I love. They also hire a diverse group of people and give a lot back to the community. They offer a lot of benefits and little treats for their employees. Although they push their associates to meet quota, they're realistic about what can and can't be accomplished.

Cons

Home Depot has two different sides to it. Store associates and those of us considered "store support" who are payed by the vendors but work in the stores 100% of the time. I constantly hear about how store associates are stressed out by management and their hours are being rearranged a lot, cut, and they often are stretched thin due to lack of full staffing. "Store support" associates who do merchandising have it better than those who work in specific departments. However, you never really gain knowledge unless you have the time to look things up and read packaging.

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The Home Depot Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. From the top down, the key to business at The Home Depot is our commitment to not only customer service, but to our associates. Because taking care of associates is one of our core values, we’re always looking for ways to ensure our associates have equal access to growth and development opportunities. We strive to provide an environment where associates feel they’re valued, treated fairly and respected.
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