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Lowe's Home Improvement

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Lowe's Home Improvement reviews

3.5

61% would recommend to a friend

(47,888 total reviews)
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Marvin Ellison

67% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Lowe's Home Improvement has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 47,888 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lowe's Home Improvement employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Einzel- & Großhandel industry (3.5 stars).

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48K reviews
4.0
Nov 9, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits & great people. I love all the people I work with. I am currently looking to get promoted. I look forward to it, but I might have to go to another store. The senior Manager's are fair across the board and work well as a team. It's hard to write review's for the company, because no one is actually writing for the company, they are writing for their store. The review will be bad if you work for a bad Manager, and yes we all have one. The company is a great company to work for. i am proud to work for Lowe's. It is much better than Home Depot and we also get an employee discount. The health benefits are great, and we are offered many options for whatever help we need. Lowe's offers legal services, massage, and therapy for mental health! i have looked for another job many times and so far haven't had any luck finding a better company. I decided to put my efforts into getting promoted instead. I don't want to be the bad manager that no one wants to work for/with. Making a store great starts with all of us. The company is already great.

Cons

Long hours & mean customer's. People can be nasty at any workplace. I wish customers would treat employees the way they want to be treated at their place of employment! I also really hate when other co-workers are negative and complain. It just brings everyone else down. It is part of Lowe's culture to support team work, but everyone has to be on board or it doesn't work. I do however think that Management is slightly underpaid.

4.0
Nov 8, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Working with an excellent group of co workers and "sometimes" management

Cons

It is very difficult to get benefits. You MUST be working full time to get them. Even then, you have to bug HR to make sure that you get them. As mentioned in other reviews, the "Good ol boy" network is still in place. While minorities might not have as much difficulty moving up, women are RARELY promoted. If they are promoted it is for the head of the front end or Home decor and not anywhere else. Depending on the store, some managers will try to cut corners to increase sales. When I worked at lowes in Lawn and Garden, safety rules were routinely ignored! If you are a male cashier expect to be singled out to do carts when the cart pushers call in or don't show up to shifts.

4.0
Nov 5, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lowes offers decent compensation for retail management, not excellent, but decent. The bonus programs for managers are quite generous, but are shrinking each year as the company grows. The company offers good medical and dental benefits, although it seems that the company pays less of the cost each year, currently employee only coverage is about $36 every two weeks. Vacation time is not denied during the holidays like a lot of retailers tend to. Lowes provides predictable schedule rotations. One thing is certain, working at Lowes in never boring...there is always a lot of work to do. Also, the employee discounts are excellent on nonstocked and discontinued merchandise.

Cons

Forget about a personal or family life during the spring and summer months, all salary positions WILL work many, many hours during the months of March through July. The company match for the 401k has been reduced three times in my 8.5 years. The first year I worked at Lowes the company paid 14% of my base salary into the 401k, I paid nothing. Now if an employee applies 10% of his or her base, the company pays 4%. Stock options for assistant managers were deleted a few years ago, and the annual sales budgets for stores were increased to the point that the bonus program may as well not exist.

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