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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
5.0
Jul 22, 2013
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Pros

The discount is great, but beware your buying habits or else you'll simply be paying HPB to let you hang out at the store. Your co-workers are almost always awesome and everybody knows how to have a laugh and be pleasant. The customers are 99% of the time very grateful for any help and always very patient. The PTO is great and monthly store meetings really help the sense of teamwork . Overall, an amazing place and company to work for.

Cons

Somewhat erratic work hours, some co-workers with a curmudgeonly demeanor, and the pay starts out small, but that seems to be the norm these days. The level of dust can be a little high sometimes. Also, people really need to stop bringing in moldy books and vampire romance books thinking they are going to get a high payout when they sell them to us.

4.0
Jul 19, 2013
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Pros

i love that the store I worked at had a little deli that was a local german business, story time on sundays, constant encouragement for kids to get into reading, and they only hire interesting and good people from my experience

Cons

They are becoming more cookie-cutter, selling out, and making everything so much more corporate, and i am afraid they will lose the very heart of what made them the successful company that they are today....

3.0
Jul 18, 2013

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Anonymous employee
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Pros

I enjoyed working with books and learning more about the publishing industry. Great benefits as far as medical insurance... paid time off which includes sick time

Cons

I did not like the fact that the actual hands-on training varied from trainer to trainer-- there was no set standard when it came to buying books. Everyone seemed to have their own preference.

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