Walmart reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(142,108 total reviews)
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John Furner

60% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Walmart has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 142,108 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Walmart employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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142K reviews
3.0
Aug 14, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of employment opportunities. Opportunity for people new to the job market to work for a retail employer with benefits, limited as they may be. Exposure to the retail "big box" marketing environment, which could lead to better employment opportunities with other major retailers.

Cons

Lack of communication between middle management and associates. Lack of situaltional awareness by lower/middle management.

4.0
Aug 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Wal-Mart is constantly improving and listening to feedback from employees. They are also working with outside companies to ensure that salary levels are comparable with the industry. Personnel management used to be very bad about over-working salary associates, but they have improved work-life balance over the past 5 years greatly.

Cons

Sr. Mgmt is out of touch with the rank and file workers. There is so much focus on diversity that many feel there is an environment based more on political correctness than on performance and results. Wal-Mart seems to be dumbing-down their hiring at the corporate level and mostly hiring project managers and less professionals with skills and experience. Stock hasn't gone anywhere in 10 years. It used to be big selling point for working here, but is now worthless.

3.0
Aug 10, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Discounts on merchandise. Also, they offer a fairly good benefits package to full time employees. All store level employees are eligible to receive a stakeholder's benefit based on the overall performance of their store.

Cons

Although all employees start above the minimum wage, their annual increases are so small that you'd have to work there 100 years to get up to a decent wage. Merit raises are few and far between.

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