Office Depot Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Be careful what you wish for."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Keep your resume up to date. They churn and burn employees!"

What don't you like about working at Office Depot?

"Has to be one of the worst run corporations in the United States. All talk and no action. Tried to diversify our offerings and forgot about the core products that made them successful."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Reduce the number of meeting hours a month! One month, while employed there, I had to attend over 40 hours of meetings. Then at the end of the month, managers couldn't figure out why production was off 25%!!!!"

"Office Depot, great college job."

"A great place to work."

"I do NOT recommend this company as a place to work!"

What do you like about working at Office Depot?

"Nothing."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"RUN THE OTHER WAY!"

What don't you like about working at Office Depot?

"Everything - The management, lack of support, lack of training, criticism, lack of personal responsibility, unrealistic expectations..."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"You need to revamp the existing group and start from scratch."

"Job was good, not much room for growth in the company."

What do you like about working at Office Depot?

"My team."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It's a great company with a lot of great people, but lacks in the sales incentive and potential."

What don't you like about working at Office Depot?

"Capped income potential."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Change the compensation plan."

"Job stress 120%. Tasks daily 150%. Payroll to do it all 0%."

What do you like about working at Office Depot?

"The amount of pressure put on management is ridiculous. The more you do the more they want and that's never enough."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Weak hearts... stay away."

What don't you like about working at Office Depot?

"Always asking more from the stores and not giving us the resources such as payroll to get things done."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Figure out the payroll to task ratio. They tell us that we are doing too much as managers, yet who else is going to do it."

"Great people, Crappy management."

What do you like about working at Office Depot?

"The people I worked with and some repeat customers."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you are not great at taking tests then you will fail the computer test when you turn in application."

What don't you like about working at Office Depot?

"The way they treat some of their employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop being babies and take action on situations. If you are behind employees stand behind them, don't let them fall in anything at the store."

"Hypocritical."

What do you like about working at Office Depot?

"Working with the customers."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Have a strong will."

What don't you like about working at Office Depot?

"They have no faith or trust in their assistants or department managers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to the assistants and department managers with a real open ear."

"A real lack of trust in the hourly and assistant managers."

What do you like about working at Office Depot?

"Working with the customers and most of the vendors."

What don't you like about working at Office Depot?

"The lack of ability to advance."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To listen to the department and assistant managers."

What do you like about working at Office Depot?

"The opportunities to show your different skills and work with different people."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Just do your best and do not worry about anything that has nothing to do with you."

What don't you like about working at Office Depot?

"They do not pay over time."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None, they did a very good job while I was employed there."

"Good place to work, but needs to care more about their employees, not the bottom line."

What do you like about working at Office Depot?

"The flexibility was a nice change of pace from past employers, and I enjoyed the customer interaction and the ability to go out in the field. Also, as a Sales Assistant, I had one of the best Office Managers of my career."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't expect too much. Compensation is great for upper levels, but lower levels are expected to do the impossible for little compensation. Also, it is sink or swim. Make sure you find a mentor and get them to give you names of where to get information in the company. The training for that is minimal and you will be expected to pull things out of the air, so contacts are everything. And they are located all over the country, i.e., sales numbers are generated out of GA, corporate is in FL, etc."

What don't you like about working at Office Depot?

"Too much unnecessary paperwork. They were bottom line driven regardless of the cost to the employee right up to and including laying off. This was regardless of your job performance."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need to find more user friendly bonus plans and monitoring systems for the sales force."

"Don't bet the farm on this one."

"I was in charge of the floor and responsible for customers."

"If you like constant change this is the place to be."

What do you like about working at Office Depot?

"Freedom to be yourself."

What don't you like about working at Office Depot?

"Stability."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Think about the people that work for you more. Put them #1 and they will return much more."