Best Buy reviews

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(41,803 total reviews)
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Corie Barry

35% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Best Buy has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 41,803 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
May 28, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The discount and product knowledge are the only reasons to consider a job at Best Buy. Cost plus 5% make cables and accessories almost free. Being first in line to buy extreme discounted items is a big plus also but you'll have to haggle with hostile management for any type of deal.

Cons

Management. Best Buy's management is a joke. Managers spend the majority of any shift standing by the front door chatting with each other. Occasionally they'll take a moment to micro manage a task. Management is reactionary to an extreme, often times ignoring problems and expectations until the day before or of a district staff visit. General managers are almost completely disconnected from staff creating an environment of distrust. It is fitting that the most passionate Best Buy employees are the overpaid and under-worked management teams.

4.0
Apr 29, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

ROWE! Not sure if it is still being used but when I was there they were using a Results Oriented Work Environment. It didn't matter when you were at work as long as the yob tou were hired to perform was getting done. If it takes me 6 hours to do my job and you take 8, why should I have to sit in my chair 2 hours longer. You can also get your work done at home and not even have to come in every day which was great because the commute to Richfield can be a nightmare.

Cons

Too many meetings, not enough "desk time" to do the work that needed to get done. Many days I would have a total of 60-90 minutes at my desk all day. The rest of the time I was at a meeting for one committee or another. VERY young workforce in some areas made it difficult to be the one that had to go home for a sick child.

1.0
Dec 1, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You do get an opportunity to learn quite a bit about doing repairs to hardware as well as removing viruses but most of that is quite basic. All challenging problems get sent out to the service center. You can also get tons of experience working with irritated customers as sadly they come in irritated far more often than not. The pace of work is usually pretty fast and challenging when there's customers coming in and you're trying to get to all of them at once so you're rarely bored. I can't think of anything else good to say about my job at Geek Squad.

Cons

Oh let me list the things! First of all, say goodbye to your social life because they never give you a consistent schedule. You never know your schedule more than a week ahead of time so it's impossible to make plans because you never know when you'll be off. Also from my experience the managers within Geek Squad are all horrible. My first manager got arrested for stealing from the store and now my next manager acts like a dictator of a country, he thinks he's encouraging but really he's just annoying all of us to death. Expect a bad manager. Also when you first start, don't expect more than 1 day of training even though their system and rules and such require a lot more learning than they think it does.

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