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Harbor Freight Tools

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Harbor Freight Tools reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(3,440 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 3,440 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
2.0
Jan 20, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Not Many. Benefits package is okay if you're lucky enough to be a permanent employee. Some departments have better morale and camaraderie than others. Building is in a nice community area.

Cons

Long hours, very poor compensation. The pressure is on to work 10-12 hours a day, even though 'overtime is not authorized'. Many employees are hired as in-house temps to avoid paying benefits. No advancement. Yearly surveys to 'improve' the morale situation in the company but nothing changes because upper management feels that they can just get new employees, if the current ones complain too much. Constant turnover, people abruptly quitting or being fired. Management will recruit and locate middle-to-upper managers and abruptly fire them in less than six months. Recruited managers are often unqualified for their positions and are set-up to fail from the start. They do this to not pay them what someone truly qualified in that role would cost the company. Upper management brought in incompetent consultants to streamline internal processes that changed nothing and ended up costing the company more money while trying to fix all the problems with the changes.

2.0
Oct 12, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I enjoyed all I worked with. I worked my way from store clerk to district manager and knew everything about the company and l loved my job.

Cons

Company greed did me and a lot of others in. The company went from a great place to work and grow to a screw you we can find someone to do it cheaper company.

1.0
Aug 20, 2012

Horrible place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent benefits, good location in California

Cons

Hostile working environment, and it is only getting worse.

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