Decent pay but not worth what comes with it - Anonymous employee Best Buy Employee Review

1.0
Nov 4, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good discount, decent pay, plenty of opportunity to learn, chance to win prizes through learning, potential for bonuses.

Cons

It is impossible to get promoted unless you have someone willing to invest in you. In my case, my immediate supervisor(s) saw me as a threat because I knew more than they did and I was consistently one of the best sales people in the store. I was literally told that a supervisor position that was opened needed to be filled by someone who was already a supervisor, because they did not want to take the time to train a new person. They will schedule you as early as 6am, as late as midnight, and there is NO stability in the schedule so they make it almost impossible to get a second job.

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