Q&A With Harbor Freight Tools Employees

Well it is all over the place. Work Hours are from 7am - midnight mostly so you get some days some nights, days off change every week.

It was flexible so long as it was over the 40 hours.

20 mins

A couple of hours

several hours

You can not work from home below the corporate level.

Non existent

Give PT Employees the full part time hours

Don’t micromanage trust the people you hired and train, share best practices

I met with the manager of the department i applied to. I heard back with in a day or two that they were moving forward with me. It took a few days longer to get through the background check and get setup to come in and start

Their interview process is extremely long. You have a panel interview all in one day. The director of talent acquisitions seems so uninterested although he is inspiring when he is speaking to a group. He says he remembers names but he still doesn’t know mine and never says hi when you walk past him in the hallways..

We wish he would take the time to walk around the office and at least prentend to know us

CEO has no noticeable day to day impact.

Long, but good questions.

Met with many people on one day.

low for the location

National average.

The department seems to run in scramble mode.

Like drinking from the fire hydrant. 70-90 hours / week is normal.

Diverse, and tired.

Tired, very tired.

There is a list of corporate values, it would be great if IT leadership worked closer to it.

Can not keep their heads above water.

Raises never happen increases will be less that 1%

Every 6 months

better hours and better pay

10 min per 4 hrs work

A motivated problem solver that is willing to work without constant direct supervision and willing to fix minor problems as they are found. Able to receive tasking and produce excellent results. Customer oriented, respectful, and friendly, you will be stopped constantly by customers with questions and by the Leader On Duty to perform additional immediate tasks such as carry outs of oversize items, while performing your daily assignments. Punctual, be to work on time for assigned shifts without consistent call-outs or no-shows.

Ok i guess. Nobody really showed me the ropes per se but they answered any questions i had and let me observe them to see how they did their thing

Business dress for every interview everywhere always regardless of dress code of employer.

Seems good. Like i said they are expanding their brick and morter operations to meet customer needs while most other retailers are closing stores due to high overhead and diminished profits

Yes to background check. Drug test only in connection with a workplace accident/injury

Not very. They found something thar works for them and it is allowing their company to grow thier brick and morter business while most other retailers are closing or switching to online

If you are collecting required data, and selling additional items.

If you are good at sales you can increase your income exponentially by earning spiffs

Open space with cubicles

Middle management needs to let their people work with less checks in or meetings and they need to get rid of the Talent Acquisitions Director

Extremely helpful