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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
2.0
Oct 11, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The job is fairly simple. If you put in just a little bit of effort, you can succeed. When you're not there, you don't have to do any work or think about work, so the work/life balance is great. Gives decent healthcare.

Cons

The staff acts like they're all still in high school with ridiculous drama. The pay is OK for entry, but the raises are ridiculously slow and hard to come by. People who have worked there for ages no longer care, and start petty fights to entertain themselves. The management claims to care about harassment, and will protect from customers doing so, but will not blink an eye when a coworker is doing so to another coworker. If you're remotely a hard worker, your coworkers will have it out for you, because they don't want to put in the work, and you're making them look bad, so they'll make your life at Half Price miserable.

4.0
Oct 9, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Day to day variety: appraising, customer service, section management - Lots of autonomy: depending on location... - Coworkers were great; fun, open environment where you could interact while working - Great health insurance - Lots of cool books/merchandise which you get a great employee discount on

Cons

- Pay, pay, pay: hard to get OT hours as well - Management is often incompetent, tenure is often prioritized over capability/work-ethic for promotions, training was often mediocre - Retail problem of no time off during holidays - Lack of vision from upper-management

3.0
Oct 8, 2017

Shift Leader

Recommend
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Pros

Books. Books. Books. Books. Books.

Cons

Unqualified management on the store level.

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