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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
4.0
Nov 7, 2012

Great place to work!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of tools if you're into that sort of thing. Good benefit package and pleasant work enviornment

Cons

Very hard to get a promotion to manager. They do not promote within but hire ex Home Depot people. Thinking of going to work for the Depot then reapplying to Harbor Freight.

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 16, 2012

Dissatisfied

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

decent salary, paid time off, relaxed atmoshpere, bonus plan, at least while I was there, I understand that has since changed.

Cons

Overemphasis on extended warranty sale, retaliation for not selling enough extended warranties, not being able to use the paid time off, constantly changing policies, no real investigation of customer complaints, just punitive punishments with no chance for defence.

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