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Harbor Freight Tools

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Harbor Freight Tools reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(3,439 total reviews)
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Eric Smidt

69% approve of CEO

59% 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
1.0
Jun 30, 2012

Wrongful treatment of employees

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is not great but ok most of the staff is friendly

Cons

Managers walk around like they are gods including district managers. Too few employees to handle store at busiest times. Managers openly call you names and make you feel as if your not doing your job meanwhile they are just walking around doing nothing or in the office sitting down talking on cell phones or to each other like no work needs to be done No real training is given the only training really given to employees is either thru a video or by another employee when they are allowed to help management never helps new employees. Most of the time your just thrown in a told to deal with it

2.0
Jun 25, 2012

Unnerving

Recommend
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Pros

Cheap prices, good discounts and decent quality products to sell.

Cons

Everything, literally everything is always changing.

4.0
Jun 20, 2012

Not too bad

Recommend
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Pros

Easy work, fast pace, decent benefits and PTO for part time employees. Management was supportive. Worked with my class schedule for college.

Cons

Long hours, average to poor pay, bad schedule coverage for management in a very busy store. Expects a lot out of new employees. Archaic computer system for registers. Cashiers need to.keep track of a lot of things that could be easily computerized and it slows down business.

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