Hobby Lobby reviews

3.2

45% would recommend to a friend

(4,941 total reviews)
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45% 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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5K reviews
3.0
Dec 25, 2008

No time for our wonderful customers.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It is a job and the customers are well worth your trouble. Hobby Lobby has attracted very nice, wonderful customers who always enjoy our interactions with them. Most of them are crafters and hobbiest who love shopping the store and coming up with new ideas. When the employees get a chance to interact with the customers it makes for a very enjoyable atmosphere. When they happen to hire department heads or employees who know their departments, the customers are thrilled and become very good repeat customers. That is really the only rewarding part of the job.

Cons

No advancement opportunity for anyone other than manager or co-manager. Very, very low pay for anyone other than manager or co-manager. We are not allowed enough customer relations and interactions with the customers. We are all just stockmen and cashiers. We are not given the time or opportunity to help customers when they need it. There are no isle signs or department signs telling the customers where departments and merchandes is. They need our help to navigate the store, but we are not able (and never enough of us) to help them. We are told by management to "walk them to where they need to go", but are repremanded when we take any time with a customer because we should be "putting up stock", "reordering", or doing "resets". The only way to accomplish our jobs in the time alotted is to "ignore the customers" so they don't take time away from our tasks.

2.0
Dec 15, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Salary is actually very good as you end up being a overpaid stockman

Cons

Training, Obsessive Micro Managing by senior field management, Often Confusing and Contradicting direction by field management. Philosophy of company appears to be--If you are not at work, you need to repent! Actually had RVP call me at home on sick day and berate me for not being at work. Take some medicine and get in here.

2.0
Nov 3, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Discounts, if you are interested in that sort of thing. Most of the workers are not primary providers or are artists. If you are an artist needing a job, this is a great place to work. You get a discount on anything you buy, as well as know about anything new. You get to talk to people interested in the same thing.

Cons

Not interesting, little advancement. Not a very fun job. Unless your store manager gets canned, you are most likely stuck doing your current job. There is really nothing between "worker" and "manager".

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