Best Buy reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(41,868 total reviews)
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35% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Best Buy has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 41,868 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Best Buy employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Einzel- & Großhandel industry (3.5 stars).

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5.0
Apr 27, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great Pay check every week, we make good money compared to alot of other companies. Great people to work around, you always seem to find yourself joking, smiling and laughing with the people you work with. Have a lot of fun while being at work, always playing games or having contests to see who can be the best sales person for the day. Sweet employee discount, when you can get product at 5% above cost which works out very nicely. A great opprotunity to get promoted, People can go from a cashier to a supervisor in less then two years if they want to- you really just have to be good at your job (which isn't that hard) and apply and you get promoted and promotions mean way more money!!

Cons

The reconstruction sucks! A lot of good people are losing their jobs

2.0
Apr 24, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

you get a very nice employee discount the job is not hard or tiring

Cons

best buy believes its sales people (the ones actually getting customers to buy the expensive stuff that fuels profits for the whole company) deserved any credit or compensation when they do a good job. the company would rather take the sale guty's commission and give it to his manager who standsx or sits behind him so that he can hassled him about the service plan he didn't attach. after all he gets a bonus if i sell enough service plans. this creates a situation where the only motivation i have to push high margin goods is to keep my boss from reminding me that his bonus dedpends on me selling high margin attachments for him. the problem with this is that the managers don't sell they babysit and tell you what you sholuld have recommend so he can get his bonus. other than him pushing me to earn his bonus for him i make the same pay regardless whether i move 200 or 20000$ worth of goods out the door. in fact i make 10 bucks an hour whether i sell or i fake sell. this working arrangement also leads the managers to insist on pushing employees to do things that our training, company policy, an\d care for our customers would advise against. if you didn't want your boss to give you a hard time or schedule poorly thjen it was strogly encouraged you say whatever. m is needed to sell that service plan afterr all i wouldn't want my boss not to get his bonus right?

4.0
Apr 23, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The Job is a good place to work because its fun.

Cons

Hour can be bad if your managers are mean. They may have you work crappy hours like close then open.

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