Best Buy reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(41,822 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 41,822 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
2.0
Aug 5, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get to work with like-minded people who love technology and share a passion for helping people.

Cons

You and all those people you work with who are excited about helping others seldom get to put their passion or skills to use. Best Buy is entirely driven by their top two profit-driving metrics: credit cards and total tech support. The leaders would have you all but lie to add another tally onto the board and could not care less about the customer having a great experience but care more about whether or not there was a credit card applied for or a Total Tech Support added. You're made to feel like a failure if you have a "good" sale that doesn't include a BP or TTS. It starts with the territory and district managers and trickles down to the GM's who pressure their staff to increase the numbers. The reality is you're working in SALES. This is not a job to have if you just love technology and helping people. You must have a driven/pushy sales personality but that's all you need to go far.

2.0
Aug 3, 2019

Cut throat management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great young culture. Organization going through a lot of change with lots of opportunity.

Cons

Very political management team who will judge staff without facts. If they don’t like you literally a VP was opening saying you will be fired if you aren’t fitting in. If you speak up and raise concerns you are painted as the troublemaker. Instead of taking feedback to improve and allow staff to be heard leadership will get rid of the staff who express their opinion even if opinion is factual and expressed in a very none-confrontational manner.

4.0
Aug 2, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazing people and benefits. A company that wants each individual to show up and bring their whole self to work.

Cons

They will restructure every few years and people will lose their job or force to be demoted without much notice.

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