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Lowe's Home Improvement

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Lowe's Home Improvement reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(47,814 total reviews)
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Marvin Ellison

67% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Lowe's Home Improvement has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 47,814 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lowe's Home Improvement 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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48K reviews
2.0
May 5, 2021

Skeleton crew mentality

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Pros

People Benefits 2 weeks vacation Sick days Free food sometimes?

Cons

If you are a good employee strap in to be ridden into the ground with long hours, unexpected walk outs, and no coverage. May God help you if you walk into a Sunday with "just enough" coverage. Be prepared to cover 2 or 3 departments. If you are competent they will see this and abuse it. They will pass you over for promotion then promise you a better tomorrow which never comes. Department supervisors are no where to be seen. Having the power over the schedule, which they will deny even though they collude to make sure they never have to close. When asked what problems to fix they tell you not to talk about the under staffed building. When they actually post jobs, they cut hours. On top of all this while you're doing the work of 3 people they expect you to find time to do their assinin training that 90% of the time doesn't even apply to your department. Along with this the front end is a disaster. Most of the new selling systems are heaped on them with zero training with the head cashiers scrambling to understand the new system of the month. I would describe my time at lowes as a slow ascent into an unmitigated nightmare.

4.0
Dec 8, 2014

Decent starting pay for a retail company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Many great employees, many wonderful staple customers. You develop a great sense of pride in your work and product knowledge. Going above and beyond to make a customer happy is what this job is all about. Taking initiative.

Cons

Retail is stressful. You are often pulled in multiple directions at once. You are often instructed to do multiple things different ways by management. Your actions are constantly in question, ex: Why are you in the paint aisle? Because you were helping a customer etc.. If you are full time, you are on a rotating schedule. You have no say in the hours. This can cause problems with school, family etc.

3.0
Apr 3, 2024

No work life balance

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Pros

Honestly any pros are outweighed by the cons so I honestly can’t say there is an actual benefit or “PRO”

Cons

I have literally watched marriages and families destroyed because of the ASM schedule. 60 plus hours a week, schedule changes constantly, expectation is unreasonable. You are provided very few associates because pay is horrible and retention is terrible. Constant hour cuts for part-time associates while the hours of the ASM are ridiculous. You get texts at home all hours of the day and night and on off days. I’ve been in group texts where the store manager told another ASM “ I want this task completed today, day off or not” literally taking his day off away from him with the threat of discipline. It was a cart of power tools in a cart that needed put back in the sales floor and had not been done for a day. It’s a tragedy that Lowes demand on ASMs makes them choose between family and job!

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