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      Best Buy

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      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

      Ratings by demographic groups

      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
      5.0
      Jul 11, 2009

      As of now, BBYM Manager is the best store leadership position.

      Best buy mobile manager
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Short-term incentive (STI), up to 40% monthly bonus. Free demo lines, mobile phone and aircards. The ability to run your own box, as your own business with your own team - you are really empowered to run it as you like (depending on your ASM and GM).

      Cons

      The work never ends. Even when you're off, you wonder how your business doing - non-stop text messages, non-stop emails, non-stop conference calls, non-stop meetings, etc. The positive side to this is that you're the only HOURLY manager, so you get overtime.

      1.0
      Jun 9, 2009

      Lost in Translation

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      The best reason for working at Best Buy are the people - those who fight on to do the right thing regardless of the built in obstacles, the innovative products, and the employee discount to buy those products.

      Cons

      Old backward Future Shop culture dirties and drags down new futuristic Best Buy vision. The efforts of highest senior management are lost in the intrigues of middle managers and a intrusive, manipulative HR group.

      3.0
      May 27, 2009

      Great job.... until it sucks your soul out and tramples it.

      Product process supervisor
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Best Buy as a company is very willing to support you and help you grow as an employee. There are several different types of advancement opportunities and learning options. As long as you are performing well, they will take care of you and help you to advance. The employee discount is amazing and there are even ways to get things cheaper than what an employee could normally get (accommodations program) and that Best Buy doesn't sell. The benefit package is very competitive and the 401(k) matching is above average. The management staff truly tries to make Best Buy a fun place while still running it as a business.

      Cons

      Best Buy leadership can be very fickle. A lot of times I feel like my talents and additions I bring to the store are taken for granted. I have lead a department hands down better than the any other store in company and still gotten micromanaged and documented for minor issues. Yes, they should have been done according the Stand Operation Platform, but we are all human. If I am outperforming every store, do I need a write up because a sign was the wrong color? And when I take initiative to improve the customer shopping experience, when did that become wasting time.

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