Stay away - - Anonymous employee Best Buy Employee Review

1.0
Feb 19, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Hardly anybody actually buys tech in person anymore, so low traffic (mostly boomers and older are the ones shopping, take that as you will) - No expertise needed, a literal monkey could be trained to pitch Totaltech and credit cards (most important employee statistic)

Cons

- Sit through dozens of hours of online training that is mostly propaganda instead of information on how to preform your job -"Training" is just a series of shifting goal posts - Encouraged to manipulate and lie to Senior citizen customers to get them to spend more and buy things they don't need. Especially the totaltech membership, so that they forget to turn off auto-renew and extract even more wealth from the Elderly. - Witnessed a fellow employee who is a Person of Color be disciplined for being late due to riding the bus. Multiple instances of racist and bigoted management harassing this employee and others. -Requires employees to install multiple apps on their personal devices, complete with insane amounts of push notifications

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

This job adds little to no value, either for customers or for career growth. The primary focus is pushing credit cards and memberships that many customers don’t actually need, making the work feel repetitive and unfulfilling. The workplace culture and management are poor, and employees are often assigned busywork instead of meaningful responsibilities. There is almost no opportunity to develop product knowledge or apply any technical or electronics skills. Even the sales experience is limited since the role revolves around following scripted pitches rather than building genuine sales or customer relationship skills. Overall, it’s not a strong entry-level position for someone looking to develop transferable skills. There are many other jobs that provide better learning opportunities, stronger career growth, and more valuable real-world experience.

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