Best Buy reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(41,880 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 41,880 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
2.0
Aug 27, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Basically the only good part about working here is the Employee Discount.

Cons

If you are on the sales floor customers assume that you work on commission and try to jerk you around on price. At Best Buy you aren't paid on commission, but you are still mercilessly hounded at as if you were. If you are in the warehouse, everyone else in the store (including managers) neglects their responsibilities and leave the burden with you. Warehouse associates basically run everything in the store for a dollar more than minimum wage and are held responsible when anything in the store goes wrong. Warehouse associates do all the heavy lifting while the Sales Team gets bonuses all day. You also have no opportunity for career growth. You want to get anywhere in the company don't get in the warehouse. If you get stuck there get out asap. Doesn't matter what department you are in for these: You will constantly get your hours cut, and then the next day they will turn around and try to call you in against your availability. Also If you request off in advance and you get it approved you will still wind up scheduled on those days off.

1.0
Aug 4, 2013

Great Company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great place to work at during younger years

Cons

Growth of career is limited.

4.0
May 18, 2013

Historically amazing; currently uncertain

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The employees at BBY are all committed to doing great work, are incredibly smart, talented, and truly fun to be around. I've made so many friends there. Historically, there has been an entrepreneurial spirit that made work exciting - you never knew where the next great idea was going to come from and everyone was working hard to come up with it.

Cons

Currently, BBY is in a turnaround and the new leadership evidently believes hard work and fun cannot co-exist. Too many talented employees leaving and threats of cuts are always present creating a less than inspiring work place.

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