Hobby Lobby reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(4,942 total reviews)
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44% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Hobby Lobby has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 4,942 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hobby Lobby 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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2.0
Jan 12, 2013

Hobby Lobby

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The pay is good. You get a choice of apron, vest or polo shirt. Health benefits at 45 days.

Cons

If you want to work in a truly artistic and creative atmosphere, this is NOT the place to work. Ultra conservative, a very un-relaxed atmosphere, and the feeling that you're always on the chopping block. Christian Muzak with very little variety piped in all day long.

2.0
Jan 11, 2013

Bad Place to Work.

Recommend
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Pros

-Competitive pay -Amazing and positive coworkers -Employee Discounts -Works well with schedule (If you're a student.) -Guaranteed Sundays off

Cons

-Management is quick to point out mistakes, slow to praise successes. -Understaffed, which means you will often not get days off, even if you request them. -Says bathroom duty is random, but stock usually gets it at least 3 days a week, which is statistically near-impossible in a pool of 10 closing employees. This is good for other departments I guess. -Bathrooms are always a disaster by the way. Nobody cleans them correctly. -Unrealistic Demands. -Management will not listen to employees and treats them like they're idiots. -Prepare for a stress-filled and crazy day whenever the District Manager comes in. -Said they will not work with other part-time jobs. -Scheduled me for a 3-hour shift over an interview for a part time job that did not affect my hours at Hobby Lobby. My hours were dramatically cut that week as well. Overall, it is a decent experience if you're a student and limit your time here. Any more hours than that and it begins to drive you crazy. For some reason, once I graduated, management just stopped treating me like a person all of a sudden, gave me bathroom duty all the time, and never gave me the days off I requested well in advance. It just seems like I'm putting so much work into this company only to get absolutely nothing in return.

3.0
Jan 4, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible Schedule, Paid Holidays, No Sundays, Vacation, Holiday Bonus

Cons

No clear direction, insane scheduling, horrible customers, false front of "christian values", poor management, you work all day on freight days and cannot leave until all of it is worked out (sometimes that's 13 or 14 hours), and you aren't rewarded for performance or knowledge.

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