Best Buy reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(41,806 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 41,806 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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2.0
Aug 5, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

If you are in favor and have a senior leader backing you, BBY is very proactive at development. The leaders (Brad Anderson and Brian Dunn), I believe, are very ethical and committed to their employees. There are many smart people and a commitment to creativity.

Cons

Best Buy is split into four groups: Retail, Corporate, Consultants and Subsidiaries. The retail group is dominated by excessively competitive types who regularly violate their own ethical code to achieve career objectives. There is a great deal of hubris in this area and it will eventually lead BBY to ruin if left unchecked. The Corporate group are smart and capable, but for the most part also obsessed with whether they will be around in a month and their next career move. Senior leadership inked a deal with Accenture that gave too much control of key operational areas to a single entity, leading to a predictable level of conflict between expectations and deliverables. The integration of BBY's subsidiaries have been a failure, largely due to the lack of an effective merger and acquisition strategy, and the unchecked interference by one or all of the other groups above.

3.0
Aug 4, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great pay scale compared to similar job functions. If you can get in touch with the right people, you can move up quickly. This all depends on your manager, however.

Cons

Highly political. It's all about who you know. The management says it isn't about seniority for promotions, but you will find out that this is *all* its about.

3.0
Aug 4, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Mostly great co-workers, great discount, and keeping busy all the time to make the time pass quickly.

Cons

If you don't suck up to management, don't expect to keep your job very long. Also, holidays are the name of the game, so expect to have very abbreviated family functions or miss them entirely.

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