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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
Apr 13, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They offer fulltime with benefits, generous sick and vacation time, and paid holidays off (although, may not be same day I.e. You will get an extra day off the week before, during or week after of a holiday paid).

Cons

They have changed many policies and many benefits that were hired at have been changed or removed. Management is not great at communication.

1.0
Apr 11, 2015

Terrible management

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The discount is pretty good, but the place still sucks the job itself is really really easy but the managers make it unbearable with their poor decisions, micromanaging but barely doing any work themselves, plus constantly running the store understaffed wears everyone down. Worst Managemet team I've seen it worked for in my entire life

Cons

Dismal wages Almost no bonus anymore Poor leadership Asked to take on managerial responsibilities without any promotion or pay increase Never do you reviews Give raises late or never at all Irregular schedule Physically stressful because they run understaffed most of the time Unhappy customers all the time Worst micro managing from certain managers and corporate More concerned about petty rules like wearing a name badge than you helping a customer who has just asked you specifically to help them

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