Walmart Stores Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Walmart Stores

Pros – Regular Work and steady paycheck.

Cons – Lack of drive of other employees

Advice to Senior Management – Oversee emplyees that tend to dissapear during thier shift. It makes others have to cover thier jobs.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Walmart Stores

Pros – Entertaining and often exciting environment. You will see EVERYTHING at some point. Anything and everything from purse-snatching to a shooting to extremely bizarre customers. I consider this a perk.

Opportunity to meet a large cross-section of society, and learn to be patient and polite to people from every diverse background possible.

Through experience, one can learn a lot about customer service and a little about sales if one chooses.

Many rewarding exchanges with customers if you treat them right.

Management is generally good at giving you your requested days off, provided that you request them at least a month in advance.

Many fun, interesting, and friendly co-workers, depending on your store and department.

If you don't put a target on your back with management, or steal of cuss out a customer, it is very difficult to get fired. Go to work, take the abuse, come home, and you will be able to continue collecting your meager paycheck.

Cons – This is a RETAIL job. It has all the normal downsides of retail, with working for Wal-Mart added on top.

Bad hours, numerous rude and ignorant customers, inept management, and VERY BAD pay for the amount of work many associates do. I understand it may be consistent with the industry standard, but that's indicative of an industry-wide problem with no easy solution.

Extreme playing of favorites by management, with an impact on your ability to move up. Also, to move up, you must be willing to give yourself over body and soul to the company, having "open availability" which, at Wal-Mart of course, means 24 hours a day, 364 days a year (and soon Christmas too I bet).

Policies will change on a daily basis, and you WILL work WHEREVER and do WHATEVER management asks you to in your given store.

The Bottom Line: Wal-Mart is a good workplace for retirees trying to stay busy, students working through school (you'll get a good dose of humility), those with no ambition or desire to be treated humanely, and, tragically, all those single mothers and others trapped in poverty who do their past mistakes, choices, birth, etc., now have no better alternative.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat your employees like they are more than dogs.
Change the work environment from one motivated by fear to one motivated by mutual respect and pride in the work we all do.
Provide better compensation, commensurate to the work wal-mart's employees do.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Walmart Stores

Pros – Work is done late at night, with minimal people around so it is queiter and peaceful. You get a blue shirt.

Cons – pay is low. work is done late night or early morning. not enough people to get all the work done is time.

Advice to Senior Management – everybody always complains about checkout lines too slow. carts all over the parking lot. getting ripped off because prices are not on items so missed placed items are wrong price.

Current Employee – been working at Walmart Stores

Pros – I don't have very many Pros about walmart. I have worked part-time for 2 years in order to pay for college and have not liked it at all. I do like some of my coworkers and some of us do hang out together after work, but everything else sucks. Now that I'm about to graduate, managers have started talking to me about becoming an assistant manager... but i DO NOT want to become one of THEM. I know that if I ever became an assistant manager, I would basically be "married" to walmart... god forbid. Everything about walmart is unorganized, unstructured, and chaotic. Being a manager at walmart would basically be a promotion to "managing chaos"... that doesn't sound too appealing for 35k a year, thanks but I'll pass.

Cons – HORRIBLE pay, horrible benefits, incompetent managers, horrible hours, an environment of fear... if you want to keep your job show up on time, don't call in too much, stay busy, and be a "yes man".

Advice to Senior Management – Communication, Communication, Communication. Every manager within walmart needs to read some text books on management. I would advise managers to read "The Leadership Challenge" and "7 habits of highly effective people". Management needs to not only get on the same page with fellow managers, but they need to lead by example and motivate their subordinates in positive ways instead of "managing through fear"

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Walmart Stores

Pros – Bonuses based on the performace of the staff and store.
Free food in the breakroom
Lots of feedback on performance from management encouraging growth
Fellow employees can be best allies

Cons – Can be boring if you stay in one area too long. Its easy to get the routine down...Zone(clean up the department), Help customer, Zone, Help customer, Zone, Help customer .. :)

Advice to Senior Management – The greatest strength that Walmart has is the workers, honest feedback and encouragement especially to those who really have the drive is invaluable. And more time clocks are needed. Its really hard to clock in on time if there are only two clocks and fifty employees hovering.

Former Employee – worked at Walmart Stores

Pros – Can get a job and move up.

Cons – My opinion the company is pushing so hart to squeez extra from their associates it is developing into a company with very definate sociapathic leanings in their dealings with associates from top to bottom.

Advice to Senior Management – Do whats right not what makes your bonus this is very often not the same thing

Current Employee – been working at Walmart Stores

Pros – If you can survive Walmart, you can do anything anywhere. The pace is extremely fast with limited resource support. So you have to be creative and people oriented. Otherwise, no favor from others.

Cons – No resource support or peers look for title to prioritize requests.

Advice to Senior Management – Adding more support resource for better functioning the job.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Walmart Stores

Pros – Having a four day work week. When business is slow it is easy to get time off. The cookouts are good when you achieve goals.

Cons – Are driven by numbers, don't care about the employees or safety of the employees. Promotions only go to those who suck up to management even if they are not qualified.

Advice to Senior Management – Take more care in your employees and not in trying to make more money.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Walmart Stores

Pros – Unlimited possibilities and Opportunities. Wealth of knowledge abounds from diverse backgrounds, able to live almost anywhere in Us and many other countres as well.

Cons – Has up and downs with any other companies. Competitiveness in job promotions is high compared o other companies bcause of skill level of many applicants.

Advice to Senior Management – Communication! Especially for company of the size can never be enough. Consistency should also be predominant at all levels with large company

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Walmart Stores

Pros – The fellow employees helped me learn everything I need to know. You would basically have to do something crazy to get fired.

Cons – The management is horrible. They are never satisfied constantly contradict themselves. They take all the credit unless it bad then they coach you. never been coached personally but after two weeks over half of the deli was on the verge of being fired. Would tell you not to go passed your hours but if job didnt get dont on time even though it was impossible. you would get coached if not finished. would work till midnight and have t be back by 6 am on multiple occasions

Advice to Senior Management – fire all of them and hire a whole new crew. These people are uneducated and have no idea what they are doing.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend