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      Harbor Freight Tools

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      Harbor Freight Tools reviews

      3.6

      64% would recommend to a friend

      (3,439 total reviews)
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      Eric Smidt

      68% approve of CEO

      58% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.6

      Culture & values

      3.5

      Work/Life balance

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.2

      Senior management

      Harbor Freight Tools has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,439 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
      Sep 23, 2012

      A miserable experience

      Assistant manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Plenty of Paid Time Off

      Cons

      Where to begin? Lack of leadership. Poor business practices. Very low standard of ethics.

      3.0
      Sep 15, 2012

      It's ok, the benefits have declined and the company has drastically changed over the years.

      Assistant head cashier
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Work-life balance is excellent. Moving up the ladder is easy. Make extra from spiff/commission from selling ESPs, and ITC memberships. Management staff is willing to work with the associates.

      Cons

      Customer base is composed of poor, classless, uneducated, smelly, old and mexican customers. The POS register system is based from the early 1980s and won't be upgraded until Mid-2013. The old registers have many issues that will slow the register lines down. Holiday pay use to include 13 holidays back in 2006, now only covers Thanksgiving and Christmas. High employee turn-over rate due to limitation is hours thanks to the 20/80 rule (20% full time, 80% part-time). Hiring manager will hire incompetent slugs that will waste the company's time will take a while for HR to fire that employee even though we live in a "fire at will" state.

      1.0
      Sep 13, 2012

      HORRIBLE Horrible work enviroment

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great associates to work with

      Cons

      Policies change on a daily basis Discrimination against women and race ongoing and rampant across the country in all stores and at a corporate level.

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