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Half Price Books reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(718 total reviews)
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Sharon Anderson Wright

64% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Half Price Books has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 718 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Half Price Books employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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718 reviews
5.0
Jun 21, 2021

Great Place!

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Pros

Worked here on a temporary contract while in school. My coworkers were amazing. The company treated everyone with respect. Everyone wanted to help everyone else out, super cool environment.

Cons

Honestly.... I got nothing... Great spot

5.0
Jun 2, 2021
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Pros

Hard work, but extremely satisfying. You see tons of novel items every day (pun intended :) and it's amazing immersing yourself in a warehouse of knowledge and dreams. If you're lucky like me, and find a store with wonderfully intelligent and quirky coworkers, it can be a dream job. Employee discount is genuinely amazing.

Cons

This is not an easy job, and the work is never done. But if you can grow comfortable with the perpetual state of being Sisyphus, then it's extremely rewarding to breath life into the shelves and to help someone find a book or item they'll love (or can't find on their own). You'll constantly cycle new things in and yet-unbought things out of the store (into the many streams HPB as an overall company manages, where good condition unpurchased items can still find a loving home). Customers will get upset about things no one can control. Customers will leave wet fast-food cups on the shelves. Customers will destroy your alphabetical organization and push your books in and make your job way more difficult, like predictably bad whether. But if you can take all these things in stride and not let the bad apples affect your day, then you'll thrive here.

4.0
May 27, 2021

Working at Half Price Books

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Pros

The health insurance and benefits are fantastic! The company really does it best to offer decent benefits to anyone working for the company.

Cons

The pay is lower and the hours can vary. Not a good job to pick if you are unable to work evenings or weekends.

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