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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
1.0
Oct 21, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits, easy workload, simple tasks and easy to learn skills

Cons

Horrible management, work/life balance is abysmal, retaliation for no reason

1.0
Oct 17, 2025

Great place

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

pay rate and pto rates

Cons

Poor management I called off for being sick and they fired me because I didnt have the sick time to cover it but had a dr note

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