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Harbor Freight Tools

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Harbor Freight Tools reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(3,449 total reviews)
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Eric Smidt

67% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Harbor Freight Tools has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,449 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Harbor Freight Tools 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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3K reviews
1.0
Apr 23, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There is potential for flexible schedules for certain positions. If you are scheduled during open store hours there is a possibility to earn commissions.

Cons

Horrible pay, management is abusive verbally and mentally. They don't care about employee safety or health (roaches, rats, mold and bars are acceptable by management standards)

1.0
Apr 23, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Part time and seasonal opportunities. discounts on employee purchases.

Cons

They encourage scamming the customers for warranties and memberships. They allow cashiers to fraudulently put these additional costs on the customer.

1.0
Apr 22, 2015

Operations Manager

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good PTO benefits, nice commission type incentives for selling service plans on select items and membership programs.

Cons

The company is very tight with their payroll budgets and they always expect above and beyond results and perfection within those budgets which is impossible. Many days you will see only 2-3 employees working at any given time and one of them is the manager. They do not take any time to properly train associates when they are first hired on so turnover is horrible. The pay and hours are extremely low for PT employee's but they expect you to be available to work anytime/any day and have completely open availability. Store managers are micromanaged by the DM and have no real authority to make decisions on their own. Whatever you do do not sign on to be a part of the warehouse team, that team works very hard for very little money and never gets the recognition they deserve for their hard work. Directives are piled on from the corporate office daily and multiple times a day, complete chaos type environment in these stores.

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