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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
3.0
Aug 9, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Top quality IT members, sharpest team I have ever worked with. Dress code was relaxed and comfortable. Owner would engage everyone the same, open and honest, always smiling.

Cons

The business is 40+ years old and shows it in the lack of ability to mature into a modern world. People do things in their daily work without knowing why, just "it has always been like this". There is no enforcement to change or mature process. The quasi IT business architects are mostly self serving aspiring exec's with no IT maturity what so ever and attempt multimillion dollar projects with a trial and error methodology. Every top level project in the last two years has tanked due to upper management's lack of support to tried and true IT methodologies.

2.0
Jun 25, 2012

Unnerving

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

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

Cons

Everything, literally everything is always changing.

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