Best Buy reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(41,856 total reviews)
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Corie Barry

35% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Best Buy has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 41,856 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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42K reviews
4.0
Oct 13, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

First, they make you feel right at home when you work at best buy. The feeling of working at best buy is similar to having a second family and or being in high school again. I would say 80% of the employees are under 30 so it's a real youthful environment. The screening of employees is pretty thorough so most of the people who work there aren't random scumbags compared to a place like macy's. All that aside, the discount is what gets you to stay. Items with extremely high markup for its kinda like cables and batteries get discount to close to nothing.

Cons

I can't take a job that is always monitoring your every move. At best buy there's always a camera above you and management thinks everyone is stealing. Whether or not the camera's actually work and or is being screened is a totally different topic, but just having all these camera's above you just isn't comfortable for a workplace. I also noticed management will promote, i shouldn't say promote because a promotion at best buy is just department switching, people whom they favor totally unrelated to skill. Getting 'promoted' at best buy is just going from department to department. If you wasted your time at best buy for 3 years bouncing around in different departments, and you finally quit and get another job, too bad because 3 years at best buy at one department is weighted the same as 3 years at best buy in 20 departments, its all the same.

4.0
Oct 9, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Best Buy is a great to make a career out of a High School Diploma. All you have to do is work hard and kiss ass from when you 1st start to make your way up to a nice management salary where you will be satisfied for many years. It does not take a lot of knowledge or skills, simply acting like you care and making friends with management and always asking to get promoted will land you a successful career for many years if you don't mind complaints from customers. On a lower level: discount is GREAT on many accessories/TVs/Car Audio/Sometimes Appliances. Best Buy will work great around your schedule for part timers and even full time.

Cons

Because management is not the most qualified group of individuals, you have to deal with every day people that made it to their position by social status. If you happen to get a good supervisor or manager then it can benefit you also though. It is not a very official or professional company. Training sucks! But if you can make it to the top pretty easy, who cares?

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