Walmart reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(142,336 total reviews)
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John Furner

58% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Walmart has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 142,336 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 Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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142K reviews
5.0
Jul 27, 2010
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Pros

Good place to work. Flexible with schedule. It sucks working every holiday, and you get little support when it's busy.

Cons

It was hard to get support when swamped. Management doesn't answer when you call for help. Customers get angry easily.

3.0
Jul 27, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The people whom I work with on the local level. Job stability, as long as you are a good performer.

Cons

Too much red tape, not allowed to think for ourselves, even when we are competent to do so. When someone makes a mistake 1000 miles away, they create more rules to stifle the individual creativity that helps companies run smoothly. Bundled Optical in with pharmacy- now we are run by managers who have no interest in our profession and who are bothered by our issues which they deem unimportant.

1.0
Jul 27, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The work usually isn't too hard. The pay can be decent for the work you are doing. The benefits are OK (but seem to get more expensive for insurance by the year)

Cons

The switch to a "hub" system is a poorly veiled attempt for the store to keep track of every minute of every employees time. Employees are often not given enough time to complete their work and are pushed to work faster constantly, even if they are already working multiple areas. Favoritism is a huge problem. Communication about policy changes is horrible, sometimes getting no notice until the day of the change. If you need any information at all you are told to look it up on the "Wire" an online website for info Wal-Mart has created. Unfortunately, the organization of the Wire is horrible, making it difficult to find any info. Often they will change something just for the sake of change. Recently they removed all stackbases in the store and built all the endcaps out, claiming this will give customers more room to shop. 4 months later the stackbases come back, with the build out end caps also remaining. So now the customer has less room to shop when the intention was to give the customer more room. A year ago they stopped playing music over the intercom, claiming customers complained about it, but than follow that up by adding advertisement screens on endcaps that play looping commercials that repeat every 60 seconds, that is significantly more annoying than any intercom music.

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