Best Buy reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(41,847 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 41,847 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
1.0
Jan 20, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Keeping a job for a long period of time looks good for building credit - even if the job blows. There are also great employee discounts and accommodations. When I began working here, everything was running smoothly, and hours were great, even for part-timers, like myself. The pay scale still goes up consistently

Cons

Two months after I started working there most of the management transferred to other stores or to corporate. After that, my store (109, West Los Angeles) went downhill. The current management did not become managers because they know what they are doing - they don't: Best Buy is notorious, in house, for not training anyone - but because they've been there longer than most other people. The employees that have been there longer than the employees who got bumped up to management, didn't get moved up because they aren't well-liked, mainly because they are hard workers and they are perceived to be a threat to anyone else trying to climb the pathetic Best Buy ladder. Of course, they won't get fired. It's next to impossible to get fired there. If you are inept, or consistently late, they won't boot you. You have to be a thief, stop showing up, sexually harass someone, or get violent. Basically, they don't like to pay unemployment, which pays more money than the 4 hours per week of work that they give about 80% of their employees now.

1.0
Oct 13, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Depending on location and management, district, regional, director, etc. Best buy can be a fun, fast paced environment with virtually unlimited potential for growth. Best buy promotes from within, has a fair training program for core stores and corporate(not so much with best buy mobile). Great salary, huge monthly, quarterly, and annual bonuses(annual can be upwards of 25k). Benefits, emp. Discount, and overall compensation package.

Cons

InI recent years, management, in certain areas of the company, are not being held to the standard that Best Buy is known for. Ex. A GM of a store that has missed budget by over a million dollars in a fiscal year, for numerous years, and is one of the highest paid GM's in the area was not reprimanded or even transferred for over 5 years. He collected a great salary as the employee morale, both managers and line level employees tanked. Working 80+ hours for anyone salaried from sept. Through Jan. Is tough on the body and family.

4.0
Oct 7, 2011

There is a lot to learn with little pay in return

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great Discount. Fun atmosphere. Great management. Treated as equals and respected. Ability to more around and up. Good benefits for full timers (32 hours) including tuition reimbursement.

Cons

It's retail. You feel like your in a sinking ship and the pressure is on you to bail out the water.

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