Pros
There are smart and good people who want to do great things, I’ve made plenty of good friends and genuinely enjoy most people.
Cons
Lowe’s is a mess. What used to be a decent place to work has turned into a toxic grind. Leadership is completely out of touch — they keep demanding more, faster, with fewer people, and act like anyone who raises concerns is just being negative. Everything is treated like an emergency, but no one in charge has the guts to say no or push back on the insanity. It’s chaos from the top down. Managers are mostly focused on kissing up, not supporting their teams. Morale is in the gutter. Burnout is everywhere. People are quitting or quietly checking out, and the ones who stay are just trying to survive. There’s also no real strategy. Executives are clearly just throwing random ideas at the wall to see what sticks. It’s all guesswork and panic. Most of their moves are ripped straight from their old playbooks at Home Depot, and now that they’ve exhausted that, they’re scrambling — making reactive decisions with no long-term vision or understanding of what actually works here. The forced 5-day return to office is just salt in the wound. It kills flexibility, hurts recruiting, and shows exactly how little trust leadership has in their own people. Meanwhile, pay and benefits are worse than what you’d get in a lot of other industries — so there’s no real reason to stay. Unless you’re out of options, don’t bother. Tons of people are just waiting for the job market to bounce back so they can get out. Avoid if you can.