Hobby Lobby reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(4,941 total reviews)
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David Green

44% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Hobby Lobby has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 4,941 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
Apr 14, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Off Sunday. Have developed a few good friends with employees.Only work every other Saturday. Vacation pay. Cannot give any other reasons.

Cons

Hobby Lobby does not value its long term employees at all. You would think a raise sounds like a good thing... but it is not. NEW full-time hires have all been given $1.00 raises for the last three years in a row while emplyees who have been with HL for years are only getting minimum raises 25 to 50 cents. NEW employees are now within 25 cents of people who have been with HL for ten to fifteen years. New full timers make $13.00 per hour and long term emplyees are at $13.25 per hour and some of them are night managers who lock up the store every night and have great responsibilities. I am given what are called "personal days" every year to be used for personal days that I may need off with pay. I cannot get paid for what I consider to be an emergency. The MANAGER of your store makes the decision if you can use your day as a personal day off and get paid. Nobody else. If your manager is a hearltess/uncaring perosn like ours is... you will not be paid. HL considers itself to be a Christian company and many people there are good people. Ido not think the ownr (Mr Green) knows the amount of anger building up in his stores as he is sheltered from employees. He would not be happy...

1.0
Mar 18, 2012

Depressing place to work for the most part.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay MOST coworkers friendly some customers are nice and many regulars That's it, no other pros. Overall very depressing place to be.

Cons

The management is rude Outdated systems (cash registers) Screwed over on hours (either too few or many, usually too few) You never know when you will be home Barely even trained, then you get in trouble for the all the stuff they didn't even train you for, but you learn from it. Takes a couple months to get comfortable with product locations and departments (but that comes with any store job) Can't even have water when you're at the register or on the floor, not even for health reasons Little ability to move upward The music can make you want to die Customers become hostile if they think something is on sale and it isn't. Can become depressing and tedious. I don't recommend getting a job there unless you want to work seasonal.

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