Pros and Cons of working at Wal-Mart - Sales Associate Walmart Employee Review

3.0
15 July 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Wal-Mart offers a lot of opportunities for advancement. You can start out at the very bottom and work your way up to Store Manager.

Cons

The only problem with that is if you are not a brown noser you will not go up very fast. They have a bad absenteeism policy. They do not accept notes from Doctors in any form. No excused absences. Sometime things happen and you need the extra support and you wont get it there.

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5.0
3 July 2026
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Pros

Fairly easy work (besides heavy loads and multiples of something), less customer facing than other roles

Cons

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5.0
2 June 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Advancement opportunities, great at developing skills, great place to learn a skill and grow your resume, or grow with the company.

Cons

Understaffing issues negatively affects all parts of their business. However, Walmart has increased their minimum hourly rate with hopes to attract more committed employees, and retain better employees.

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Walmart Response
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Thank you so very much for this review and advice. We value this and will be sharing with our leadership teams.
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