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Harbor Freight Tools

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Corporate Information Technology Employee - Anonymous employee Harbor Freight Tools Employee Review

2.0
Apr 27, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Growing Organization, wide access to technologies and methodologies. Great place to add to your resume as a stepping stone in furthering your career.

Cons

Absolute, complete chaos. Work/life balance is a joke managers tell themselves. Pay is well below market and similarly sized organizations. Training is hard to come by. Leadership war with each other at the expense of the organization. Good ol' boys club at the top. Career paths are hard to come by. Employee feedback surveys are boiled down to a few bullet points, and not effectively addressed. All IT animals are created equal but some are more equal than others.

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Harbor Freight Tools Response
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Thank you so much for your detailed feedback, and know that we will share this with the appropriate team members in our ongoing continuous improvement. We believe in a being a great place to work and doing the right thing, which your feedback will be able to help us do. We appreciate your work so far with us at Harbor Freight Tools.

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Cons

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