The Home Depot

• Gym / Health Club on-site
• Annual large parties for the employees
• Large cafeteria on-site
• Great location off highway and near restaurants
• Numerous jobs available
• Decent wages, medical benefits, 401K, etc.
• Large company to spread out and learn multiple technologies in many business areas.

Management is heavy-handed and micromanages tasks that should be delegated.

Numerous red tape is required to accomplish minor tasks; internal processes are excessively cumbersome. It takes two weeks to order and receive a new keyboard or mouse, or simply get a user ID/password to a system.

They will ask you to work your personal time way too often—overnights, holidays, early mornings, late nights—with no overtime pay. If you refuse, you get a bad performance review or could simply get laid off. The next morning, they still expect you to arrive at work early, regardless of how late you worked the previous day.

You may have a flexible schedule for a while, then suddenly be forced to attend daily stand-up meetings early in the morning. If you are late, you will receive corporate discipline in the form of probation and be put on observation, or even let go. You are constantly pushed to your limit emotionally and mentally due to the short delivery timelines and political issues between departments. You crave time off but are afraid to take it, lest you fall behind.

Management changes are frequent and sporadic. You might start with a great manager and then two months later get reassigned to someone who makes your life a living hell.

They work contractors unscrupulously. They hire numerous H1B Visa contractors and then hire other third-world managers to manage and speak to them like third-world country employees, insulting them publicly and speaking to them disrespectfully in meetings in front of everyone. Some of the managers are allowed to lead by intimidation and humiliation tactics, common in third-world countries. If you are American, you find it appalling. Meanwhile, they will expect Americans to work with foreigners with severely broken accents, very difficult to understand and communicate with them about deeply technical, detailed topics. They expect you to do this successfully because they are saving money by paying the foreign workers lower wages.

They will also frequently pressure you to pay into their PAC (Political Action Committee), whose primary concern is to lobby Congress to make laws that could boost the company's profit margin, regardless of the harm to humanity, the environment, or the best interests of its customers.

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