Best Buy reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(41,885 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 41,885 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
4.0
Jan 27, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fun and competitive work environment. Takes care of employees who work hard

Cons

Company is struggling and not sure of future.

2.0
Jan 23, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are really nice. Pay is higher than other sales jobs. Job is none commission base. Not a hard job by any means.

Cons

Management disorganized. Products often understock. Empty Promises. Managers need an econ class. Often didn't understand basic concepts. Tough moving up. Work is not often recognized.

1.0
Jan 20, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Keeping a job for a long period of time looks good for building credit - even if the job blows. There are also great employee discounts and accommodations. When I began working here, everything was running smoothly, and hours were great, even for part-timers, like myself. The pay scale still goes up consistently

Cons

Two months after I started working there most of the management transferred to other stores or to corporate. After that, my store (109, West Los Angeles) went downhill. The current management did not become managers because they know what they are doing - they don't: Best Buy is notorious, in house, for not training anyone - but because they've been there longer than most other people. The employees that have been there longer than the employees who got bumped up to management, didn't get moved up because they aren't well-liked, mainly because they are hard workers and they are perceived to be a threat to anyone else trying to climb the pathetic Best Buy ladder. Of course, they won't get fired. It's next to impossible to get fired there. If you are inept, or consistently late, they won't boot you. You have to be a thief, stop showing up, sexually harass someone, or get violent. Basically, they don't like to pay unemployment, which pays more money than the 4 hours per week of work that they give about 80% of their employees now.

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