Best Buy reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(41,828 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 41,828 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
5.0
Dec 2, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The benefits are great for full-timers (401k, paid vacation, sick hours to use for each paycheck, time and a half for govt holidays worked, paid holidays, stock options, full medical, dental, and optical coverage, and tuition reimbursement), very decent starting pay, management are encouraging and supportive, and almost everyone there likes to joke around and have as much fun as possible on the job, and that includes management. Good as a easy-going part time job for high schoolers or college kids, as well as a great way to advance in the business world for full-timers with flexible schedules.

Cons

If you disagree with management, you get on their bad side pretty quickly, and once you are there, it's nearly impossible to succeed or advance within the company. As many other reviews have also stated, there is obvious favoritism practiced among management. However, as long as you work hard to get things done, be friendly, satisfy the customer needs, and hit your numbers, this will most likely never be a problem. If you are thinking about working at Best Buy full time, you better care about their profit margin.

3.0
Dec 2, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

easy entry, good place to earn expirence if you didn't have any. Friendly highschool like work environment.

Cons

non-comissioned, low salary, quote on warranty sales. They will come 'talk' to you if you can't achieve the sales goal. Some supervisor are jerks who just want the bonus but didn't care about the feelings of his staff members.

4.0
Dec 1, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great Benefits, Good work relationships, something you enjoy and getting paid for it! If you enjoy being able to work with others and sell things that you enjoy than this is the place for you. It is a fun place to be. The benefits are great. You have the employee stock purchase plan which enables you to buy BBY stock at a 15$ discount once every 6 months. You also have 401(k) that can be matched up to 5 percent. This is for part timers too! Full timers do get health benefits and paid holidays which can be a very nice thing.

Cons

Most raises and promotions are based solely on how much you suck up to management. I'm not bitter. I'm just being honest.

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