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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
2.0
Oct 4, 2025

Takes a toll for what it is

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The work environment as a whole was interesting due to the different material coming in, cool finds and interesting people.

Cons

For how nice it was shopping at HPB before I started working there, I was surprised that so many people working there were miserable and angry. I quickly found out why, and a lot of it had to do with weak general management that was allowing long term supervisors to terrorize employees, seemingly for fun or to take some of their anger out on someone? I don't know, but it was terrible as a female to feel bullied by much older white men that were angry at the world and treating others horribly with seemingly no consequences. It was really disappointing and I got out before the year was up.

4.0
Aug 24, 2025

Great

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Books Relatively little micromanaging Positive environment

Cons

Goofy changes portend a culture shift that might mean the end of the flexibility this company used to allow it's employees

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