Office Depot reviews

3.3

42% would recommend to a friend

(7,964 total reviews)
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Gerry Smith

41% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

Office Depot has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 7,964 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Office Depot 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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8K reviews
2.0
Apr 14, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

they will hire anyone who can pass a background check and good for 1st timers in the work place to get a very small glimpse of corporate life.

Cons

1. Breaks are hard to come by given deadlines, i.e. 30 min a palet rule 2. hours constantly being cut 3. Negative numbers daily. Company always breaks even and never turns a profit 4. You will be pushed out if negative in anyway, make friends with whomever does the scheduling 5. Safety violations everywhere 6. Very high employee retention problem 7. No staff on floor leaving you to handle everything not giving you time to complete tasks... hence giving up breaks 8. customer complaint can get you fired, (even if someone didn't like you and pretended to be a customer on the survey). 9. RVP and Upper management don't know whats going on. 10. Upper manager style too old fashion to keep up with current sales techniques 11. Management needs to be fired, (some good ones, very rare) and hire new fresh management if this company plans on growing its numbers 12. You will be doing managements job. If they missed a deadline, they will NOT hesitate to blame on you!

2.0
Nov 6, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Office Depot has tremendous brand recognition, which is a great advantage for an outside sales person, when approaching a prospect. That's a big plus.

Cons

In order to drive revenue for BSD, the directive from our executive management team in Delray is to micro-manage the sales force. I assume to send a message to Wall Street that everyone in BSD is doing his/her job. The new buzzword is "engaged". However, distracting the sales people with spending 2 days in the office, numerous reports, meetings and training is counter productive. Outside sales means getting in front of our customers every day, 5 days a week. If you're filling out reports and sitting in various meetings all day, you're obviously not selling anything to anybody. You're "engaged" but with non-selling activities. Since the downturn of the economy, senior managment has turned the sales position into an administrative job.

1.0
Feb 20, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None. The vending machine was the best place about working there.

Cons

Horrible pay, horrible raises. Guy worked there for 20 years and still was paid less than 20 an hr. Not to mention the 10% discount is useless when they jack up the prices for everything.

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