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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

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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
4.0
Sep 21, 2021

energizing environment

Recommend
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Pros

Fast-paced, interesting place to work with a great discount

Cons

Your experience in a store can be very dependent on management, and sometimes very "old school" people can be unpleasant to work with, and the pay isn't awesome

1.0
Sep 16, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Discount on used media some of the coworkers were lovely to be around.

Cons

Everything else and getting fired over the phone during covid. Trust me, there are jobs that pay so much better and I wasted so many of my days working here and coming home tired to only get fired like nothing. Life’s too short to work here.

3.0
Sep 16, 2021

Wonderful and awful

Recommend
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Pros

Okay benefits, possible quarterly bonuses depending on sales, birthday money, anniversary money to be used in stores. Fifty percent off most merch. Job is straightforward with barely a learning curve. If you're lucky, you change positions every few hours so you're not stuck doing one thing all day. Starting pay rate is 11 an hour, 35 hours for full time.

Cons

No movement, upper management always looks for ways to write people up to the point that just having a phone outline in your pocket can result in a write up. Pay raises are VERY difficult, and if you had any write up you will not get a raise, but the raises are only ten cents or less anyway. Insurance is expensive, HR is hard to get a hold of, underappreciated for the stressful work you do by customers and upper staff. Do be careful talking with others, if management catches a whiff you'll be pulled into the office and chided and redirected depending. Also, unions are looked at as negative, as is talking about pay disparity.

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