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Harbor Freight Tools

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Harbor Freight Tools reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(3,450 total reviews)
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Eric Smidt

67% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Harbor Freight Tools has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,450 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
Mar 9, 2025

Shady management

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Staff, pay, work life balance

Cons

Honestly the downfall of this company atleast in the district I worked at was a year ago when senior management started picking accountability over coaching and development they no longer care about there associates but stick to metrics and pick and choose when to hold people accountable my time at harbor freight was great under prior senior and store management and there was a sense of purpose. One thing about this company is HR and your STORE MANAGER are not to be trusted they are there for the company and don’t care about employees at the end there were multiple occasions where accountability was held unequal along with management throwing others under the bus for something they messed up on and I still get calls to this day from current team never expressing discontent with management even tenured associates the same issues that were going on are still happening at a consistent rate and due to the nature of management people don’t feel welcomed to challenge this as I found out causes you to be called childish and told that person has no respect for you I was told multiple times while working here speaking to associates about grievances was illegal and against company policy along with being told it was illegal to discuss ambiguously why I was leaving the company which I never wanted to do I brought up the fact I may want to consider a notice in which I was coerced into making which was highly inappropriate but not worth fighting as they wanted me out anyways and once your out you can’t get in contact with anybody on the hr side nor employee relations it’s all radio silence stay away from this company at all cost focus on a company that promotes growth and a healthy work place this company is toxic and management will do all they can to save face

4.0
Feb 28, 2025

Decent job

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits Paid time off Your schedule is figured out ahead of time

Cons

Depends on who you get as a manager. Getting paid leave can be a PITA if changes happen too fast

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