H E B reviews

4.2

85% would recommend to a friend

(14,337 total reviews)
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Howard Butt, III

94% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

H E B has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 14,337 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The H E B employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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14K reviews
2.0
Jan 14, 2022

HEB

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent Benefits, Good Pay, Great Vacation Plan, Gives back to the community.

Cons

Ancient Tech Stacks. Lack of team unity. Direct Manager not technically capable of understanding complex software issues. Not welcoming to people who did not start their career at HEB out of college. Poor onboarding. No documentation for their systems. No training of systems and was expected to reverse engineer everything. If you are looking at working with the latest tech stacks on cloud this is not the place for you. There are engineers that want to learn new things but leadership in the team kills their desire to learn by not allowing them to give feedback on issues and killing their ideas without listening to them. Team leaders are more out for themselves instead to make the team better.

2.0
Nov 27, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits, bonuses, and ability to make your own schedule if you’re a manager.

Cons

Favoritism in leadership, judgement on how you make your schedule and what days off you have. You’re also questioned on why you’re taking your vacation time. Must work on weekends to keep up with the business. Leadership can also micromanage you depending on what store you work at. You may be able to take some holidays off, but it is incredibly frowned upon. Be ready to be thinking about work all the time and be expected to keep up with what’s going on at the store even on your days off. Grocery, General Merchandise, and now curbside are the departments focused on by leadership. If you don’t manage or work in those departments, be ready to be ignored if you have a problem in your department. You are not given a company phone or a free phone plan. The company asks you to download multiple apps to keep up with business and to keep up with these apps on your days off. If you work in a large store, it’s hard to be able to get to know other managers. Leadership does not aid in helping managers bond and get to know each other. Leadership also encourages a culture of favoritism in the store and doesn’t give as much attention to smaller departments.

1.0
Nov 1, 2021

WorstJobEver

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They do publicity stunts and occasionally throw a few extra dollars your way.

Cons

Worst Job Ever. It's not what you know, its who you know, H.E.B. is the face child for this saying. If you are a basically capable individual, incapable of sucking up to managers who didn't have to work 1/2 as hard as you, with no connections in this company do not work here. You well be taken full advantage of. You well be allowed to move up if you have connections on the corporate level, or make the company look good, I.e. promotes more _______ than any other company, promotions are not based on performance. Complaining from coworkers, and management, who complain but do not help is ramped.

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