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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
3.0
Oct 3, 2015

Times are changing.

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Pros

Short and sweet: the discount, and the coworkers (a majority of the time). Easy to do if you don't care, but don't get too invested; it'll drive you crazy.

Cons

Benefits are going downhill as they are beginning to focus more on expanding and less on treating their current employees well. Long-time employees, from all levels, are leaving the company. Bonuses are being cut, hours are being cut but pay is increased to make it "look" better. No more paid lunches. They have people in as SMs who couldn't care less about store performance. Certain districts are very political and biased.

4.0
Sep 20, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits Coworkers are awesome Customers are pleasant You spend all day talking books and movies Awesome discount

Cons

It can be difficult to get hired. They get so many people applying, it's well accepted that you usually have to apply several times just to get hired, and then rehired to be kept on permanently.

4.0
Aug 31, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Company has pretty good values and tries to do right by the environment. In general, daily processes manageable and the job van be fun.

Cons

Happen to work for a particular manager that is difficult to respect and who changes processes much too often. Confuses staff and wonders why people are unhappy.

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