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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

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
5.0
Sep 8, 2012

great work place

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

good hours, great enviorment,good people

Cons

i dont have any bad thoughts about my employment to this point.

3.0
Sep 7, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

nice vacation time, decent schedule, decent management team at the store level. always something to do so can never get bored. always something different everyday. decent co workers one or two bad apples. making progress to improving daily operations but can get a little bit to much micromanagement

Cons

lack of space in the backroom is a constant problem, to much micromanagement on small stuff. lack of communication with the stores about changing product, part/full time ratio is awful has done more harm in the store level than good. harder to retain employees when they only get 25 hours most per week if lucky. SRR can be an effective program but a bit to much on the forcing the store to complete it before it can get on with other major tasks. high volume stores have a more difficult time just trying to get the basics done leaving many store specific projects to be put on hold for months before the time or man power can finally be found to accomplish them and SRR takes away what time is typically available to accomplish the tasks off hours.

1.0
Aug 31, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The only good thing I can say is that it was a very short drive there.

Cons

$7.50 an hour in Victoria TX. My superior was ALWAYS in the back & no where to be found for help. Many co-workers where no show constantly & if they did come in they where high. I was told by two employees my first week "everyone here smokes weed". I started looking for another job & got one. I quit Harbor Freight by walking out when I was confronted. Today was my last pay day and the check is no where to be found.

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