Best Buy reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(41,868 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 41,868 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
Sep 19, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

discounts on all items, accommodations, learn a bunch about new technology, room for growth, no degree needed

Cons

Money is their main focus, they don’t care if you’re sick or have an emergency come up. Working on thanksgiving is actually a sin. Stressful to meet rev goals. Takes a long time to move up.

3.0
Aug 7, 2019

Advanced Repair Agent

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Entry level IT type work, ticketing systems, phone calls to clients, break/fix. Discounts on certain products, often fast-paced environment.

Cons

IT work in a retail environment. Retail pay, typically do not hire full time off the bat. Left before benefit plans were introduced (early 2019) to part time employees so should be available now. Often difficult to meet expectations due to operating within best buy and getting pulled from back to help with CA, Customer service related issues. Incoming Phone calls were predominantly meant for another department or needed to redirect client to 1-800-geeksquad. Could be fixed with a phone operator or two within the store.

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.

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