Havertys reviews

3.1

43% would recommend to a friend

(605 total reviews)
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Clarence H. Smith

67% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Havertys has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 605 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Havertys 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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605 reviews
1.0
Mar 7, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay when deliveries go smoothly

Cons

Commission Only Pay Sucks. Lots of damaged furniture problems, management treats employees like they,re easily replaceable , if salepeople don,t meet their monthly quotas they are written up and fired. They do not take into account the sales numbers are dependent on delivery of undamaged merchandise.

2.0
Oct 30, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Eh, you CAN make decent money there, some months, but not enough to outweigh the bad months and the overall feeling of being and under appreciated and underpaid employee.

Cons

It is possible to make decent money here, but you have to put in so many hours, you must work every holiday (with the exception of Christmas Day, Thanksgiving and Easter), every weekend, 45-55 hours a week, that you begin to question if it's even worth it. Another huge problem with this company is that it is so incredibly shortsighted. Rather than looking toward the future, and cultivating a new generation of managers and leaders in the company, they choose to side with, collude with, and perpetuate the mentality of 'old timers are always right'-even when they're not! The who have been working at Havertys a long time do NOT want to relinquish any of 'their' customers, pay, authority, favoritism, etc, and therefore they simpler freeze out and run off anyone who they feel even remotely intimidated by, and then the higher ups wonder why they can't cultivate any new talent?? It's so predictable and sophomoric that one would THINK management would do something about it, but instead they choose to look the other way. Why do they look the other way? Because the tenured employees perform many of the menial tasks that management doesn't want to do, and so it's very much an 'I'll scratch your back, if you scratch mine' mentality.

4.0
Sep 27, 2015

Sales Associate

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The high you get from a sale is intoxicating, training is amazing and through. Knowledge of sales and effective methods of sales are instilled in the job. Benefits are quiet nice and employee discount is top notch.

Cons

Constantly having to contact and reengage customers, whether by email or phone. Requirements are sometimes unachievable and non realistic. Although the ideas behind many of the sales methods are great they aren't always the most lucrative in a real life situation.

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