Best Buy reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(41,880 total reviews)
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35% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Best Buy has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 41,880 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 Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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42K reviews
1.0
Nov 18, 2013

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Anonymous employee
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Pros

There weren't very many other than the discount.

Cons

Best Buy has to have been one of the most difficult and challenging places to work. There are rarely any opportunities to move up in the company. What is more than likely to happen is that Best Buy will hire someone from outside the company or someone who is already in a management position in the organization, but rarely from the bottom up. As their business has begun to shrink and also spike downwards, they've had to make major adjustments to the business as well as to the positions in the store, so it is common to have one associate wearing two or three hats for the same pay. I wouldn't recommend it. Period. It's not worth the time or the pay for retail.

1.0
Nov 4, 2013

Decent pay but not worth what comes with it

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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