The Home Depot reviews

Hope you enjoy working weekends and holidays. Work-life balance is not much of an option. This is not the fault of the management staff, as it is inherent to the retail industry as a whole.

Home Depot has a very disjointed senior leadership team that changes priorities faster than the wind changes direction. Employees that execute these "on a whim" plans are set up to fail because there is not enough working processes and cross organizational cooperation. Even if you are able to complete the projects you are tasked with, there is a very high chance it will not be used or implemented (due to a changing priority or there isn't any money or people to make it happen). The systems are outdated and only a few know how to extract information out of them. Training has been slashed, so the only way to learn how to do your job is to learn from kind coworkers. The culture is very cut-throat so good luck on getting any training from your counterparts. The office politics are unreal - no matter your skill level, you have to be able to back stab and politic because your promotions depend on it. Many are promoted who do not have the skills necessary to be in that position. The Nardelli management style (run the employees into the ground) is still very alive in this organization. The work hours are 10-12 hour days and weekends for less pay as people in consulting or similar type work. Individuals are set up by the group leaders to compete with one another rather than working as a team to get results. People are out for themselves and do not work together. The sign-on stock bonus is generous, but it is not yours until you have stayed with the company for 5 years. Most people do not last this long there. The executives (VP and C-Level) are not down to earth as the company image would suggest. They are loaded up with bonuses if their people meet certain targets while the people do not get any bonus (if they are lucky they will survive the next layoff).