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
5.0
Sep 2, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Let me preface this by saying it was my first job and worked here for just under a year: - Great management: They care a lot about you as an individual, and if you aren't meeting metrics, they will try to help you rather than scold you for bad performance. - Team Bonding: The store tends to have a day or two a month where either the management or a brand ambassador will bring in food, and the team itself is very intertwined, and everyone knows the entire team by name. - Career Mobility for Management: If you want to work at BBY for a career, go down the management route; while being a consultant can be lucrative, it is volatile and heavily competitive, whereas management gives the most growth opportunity for someone looking to thrive.

Cons

- Favoritism: Some stores are given favoritism, as in any job, and management doesn't do a great job at ensuring that the team is equally splitting the load at times. - Expectation to Know All: After you gain a bit of seniority, you are typically paid less than recruits, have to work ALL departments as a fill-in, and walk across the store all day; it gets exhausting talking about 15 different types of products and getting/loading product for customers.

4.0
Sep 24, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Relaxed days are very relaxed, and get to spend time joking around with coworkers and learning about new products and whatnot. The discount is really really good depending on the products. Not uncommon to get an $80 cable for $7.

Cons

Corrie Barry is running it into the ground for the most part. Shareholders are prioritized far far above the employees or even the customers. There is no viable upward track for salespeople, and raises are virtually nonexistent. Hard to find a store that values the work of their employees because incentive programs are devised entirely by the managers, and if you have mediocre managers, you have no incentives.

1.0
Aug 14, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

i got to meet some amazing fellow employees that are incredibly smart and we are now friends outside of work. I did like that they originally emphasize learning about new technologies and attempt to facilitate that through learning network.

Cons

i wanted to leave only a few months in. i was working part-time and they were taking advantage of my sales experience and scheduling me full-time without asking me even outside of my availability. They were stressing me out so much i was having medical reactions to the stress. Leave while you can they have not and do not provide opportunities for learning and every time they claim to they will call you out on the floor so you have no idea what you are talking about unless you do it (learning) outside of work. Customers are absolutely awful and management and corporate do not care how long you work there they will get rid of you for whatever reason. Our management let some one who had multiple hr reports and violations against him work there because he excelled at sales and conning people into cards and they waited for him to quit. In addition, our area hires almost exclusively men/ white men and continuously fails to hire a more diverse workforce where I've had to deal with sexism in the work place for years.

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