Sam's Club reviews

3.3

51% would recommend to a friend

(12,898 total reviews)
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Latriece Watkins

63% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Sam's Club has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 12,898 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sam's Club 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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1.0
Aug 6, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is Reasonable but not great

Cons

Managers are constantly making threats and demands. They schedule you but then demand you stay considerably longer and threaten you with firing to ensure compliance. Clearly they assume no one has a life outside of work, or ever makes plans to do things in their lives other than work and be on call for work 24/7. This is not an occasional occurrence which could be understandable but an everyday action. In addition, managers will change your schedule last minute. Say you were scheduled for 9-6. They'll change it short notice like after work the day before and tell you to come early, say 7-4 but then after you show up early and work your full shift they will still require you to stay to the end of the originally scheduled shift (9-6) if not longer. Their skills and abilities as well as proper knowledge of what responsibilities a manager actually has are completely off base. In addition, they have no sense of professionalism or general business etiquette.

1.0
Jul 2, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It's a job, bottom line. No pro's to it.

Cons

You won't succeed nor be valued unless you are management. To make "budgets" and make up for blowing budgets, they'll make it up through cutting part timer's hours. They only think team leads and managers have bills to pay and family to support. As soon as I was hired I had management tell me to use this job as a stepping stone. A manager blew the budget by 110,000 dollars and corporate told the new management they have to make that money back and they'll cut payroll to do it. Wrong to do to the workers which you claim to value so much. Part timers aren't valued and Sam's acts as if they could care less if they work there or not. Unless you're management or team lead, don't ever expect to make it nor be valued in this damn place.

3.0
Jun 8, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You can put money into a 401K and Walmart Stock even as a part timer, and they will add a percentage to it as well once you've been there a set amount of time. (I believe it was 6 months for stock matching, I don't remember for 401K)

Cons

Produce is VERY physically demanding. I was in great physical condition prior, and I could hardly walk after my first 2 weeks. You get used to it, but it stays hard. You lift 300-400 boxes weighing from 5 to 50 pounds daily, while twisting, turning, and ftom awkward angles that prohibit "good lifting practices" even for tall guys.

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