What is the hiring process like at Techtronic Industries?

- Decent Pay - Consistent Hours

As a young college grad they will sell you the dream. It’s all a facade. It’s surprising colleges allow that stuff on their campus. Depending upon what market you are in this may never happen. Promotion is rare, again, depending upon your market. You spend all this money to get a college education and actual skills only to end up in a Home Depot. There is zero marketing and hardly any sales. It’s retail sales, the customers who come in either know what they want, or are just browsing. You will spend 90% of your day down stocking, reorganizing shelves, or doing demo days, which are completely counterproductive to other things you need to be doing. It is an easy job once you get the hang of it. Empty promises, super long commute & CONSTANT turnover. After a couple months they ask for a positive review on this site. If you have nothing else lined up post grad, go for it. It’s good pay for a new grad. I’d caution on turning down other offers for this one. I worked with plenty of smart people who were stuck in the first role for years because they were consistently denied promotion due to clear favoritism. You’ll begin to realize they boast about their training team doing constant trainings for new hires. The reason for so many new hire trainings isn’t because their people are being promoted, it’s because they are quitting.

Very easy job mentally. Good gear: shirts, backpack, tools. Not overly micromanaged. Decent pay. Excellent work life balance.

Chance for promotion is entirely based on your manager. Mine was great. Some managers are interested in getting themselves promoted and never bother to put their subordinates up for promotion. Have to work saturdays 8 or so weeks out of the year. Some of the tasks given to you can be pretty intense physically. I.E. moving roughly 500 boxes when resetting an aisle. You are in a Home Depot all day. I have a co-worker that was never told they would have multiple stores to keep up with during their interview process or in their offer letter.

As long as you get along with the people at Home Depot, this job is mindless.

There are more cons than pros at this job. -You are working in a Home Depot everyday, as an associate, but for the three brands. -It’s rare to get training from your manager, I was given three days of training and left on my own at a High Volume store. -Your schedule will constantly change. Whether that be from M-F to T-S or 8:30-4:30pm. They lie in the interview process. In any case, there’s a chance you will only get Sunday off during the transition. -Surprise visits from your manager and then do a store walk to discuss everything you’re doing wrong without proceeding with advice for improvement. -Leadership development program is not consistent. Being here a year, I haven’t been approached by my manager for future plans with the company/or asked during performance evaluation. Someone on my team who hasn't been there a year got promoted before those who have more seniority. -Aggressive tactics to approach customers in aisle made me uncomfortable. Teaching employees to “K*ll the competition” is not professional in any way. -They offered a vehicle and gas card then took it away, a prime benefit for employees and supplemented it with $.96/hr which working in California is only enough for gas. Nor wear and tear on your vehicle and make you get business vehicle insurance. -They took the vehicles in waves so, your coworker could have a company vehicle while you drive your own car. Managers are able to keep their vehicles. -You’re supposed to be given power tools for demos and store use for projects but you are not given proper training in handling a drill or sometimes never even receive the power tools at all which limits your job. Totally unsafe, what would OSHA think. -Unnecessary heavy lifting. -Was given a raise ($.36 cents) and my co-worker who worked TWO months longer than I received a larger raise. While we do the same amount of work. Performance wasn’t evaluated properly. -102 Training, makes you room with a stranger, that could be anyone in the company.

Ok salary for an entry level job

The only kind of ok thing about this company is starting salary. If you are super passionate about power tools and are cool with getting dragged through the wringer for your first few years, get in there and HELP THEM their business practices are abysmal!! RUN as fast as you can if that’s not you. Would give 0 stars if I could because of how deceiving the recruiting process is. You are a nothing more than a glorified Home Depot associate, if you want genuine insight on what your everyday will be like get into contact with one, they’ll keep it real.