Best Buy Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Best Buy full-time for more than a year

Pros – Pay, managers, environment, Technology!!, flexible schedules

Cons – hours are sometimes not so great

Advice to Senior Management – Management is great where I work at

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Best Buy

Pros – people, cool products, pay (for a retail), environment

Cons – Normal politics that go on within a store

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Best Buy

Pros – Really great people to work with, growth area for the company

Cons – Don't have any ownership over the day-today business. There are a lot of roadblocks to getting your job done.

Advice to Senior Management – Give more responsibilities to lower level employees

Current Employee – been working at Best Buy part-time for more than a year

Pros – Easy going, great discounts, friendly atmosphere, wonderful upper management.

Cons – Hard to climb the ladder to get a full time position

Advice to Senior Management – Spend more time shifting through potential hires to find real quality future employees that do their share of tasks & responsibilities.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Best Buy full-time for less than a year

Pros – -Constant Trainings
-Great STI Bonuses
-Can work with days I request off
-Great Leadership
-Good Benefits once Full Time

Cons – -Some Managers push nubers versus customer experience
-Gossip, which is in every work place
-Constant battle to move up

Advice to Senior Management – Focus more on the customer experience, and not the numbers! If we are giving them the best experience, then it will reflect in numbers!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Best Buy full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – non-comission but fare compensation(bonus-STI), great teamwork, latest technology, accommodations from various vendors and room for advancement.

Cons – influencing the young crowd of workers that are just there to work for school or while in high school.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Best Buy full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – The employees at BBY are all committed to doing great work, are incredibly smart, talented, and truly fun to be around. I've made so many friends there. Historically, there has been an entrepreneurial spirit that made work exciting - you never knew where the next great idea was going to come from and everyone was working hard to come up with it.

Cons – Currently, BBY is in a turnaround and the new leadership evidently believes hard work and fun cannot co-exist. Too many talented employees leaving and threats of cuts are always present creating a less than inspiring work place.

Advice to Senior Management – Hard work and fun can coexist in the workplace; managing with threats of cuts does not create an environment where employees want to do their best; investing in only short term opportunities is going to create long term problems.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Best Buy part-time for less than a year

Pros – Co-workers generally good people.
Will teach you how to sell.
Most interactions with customers you help them get the right PC and that part is fun.

Cons – Push hard for credit card sales.
Need a high attach rate of accessories.

Advice to Senior Management – Some managers need to go, don't just shuffle them around the store.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Best Buy part-time for more than a year

Pros – bonus, advancement, technology, staff, atomoshere

Cons – high goals, lack of requireed training

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up teh chnages great direction

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Best Buy

Pros – Pay is great
Bonus is obtainable
People are cool
Training of employees
opportunity to advance

Cons – Stress
Managers promoted because of friendship
Some managers are not open to new ways of doing things
Egos of Managers

Advice to Senior Management – Be aware that friendship and the good ole boy network exists in your stores. Managers should embrace new ideas and by willing to take the criticism they hand out. Stop supporting mediocrity, and really look at the potential of each employee. Happy employees make productive workers. People should not be constantly under threat of losing their job.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend