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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.

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

1.0
Aug 31, 2015

Lost in the crowd

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Killer discount, pretty cool coworkers

Cons

Pay is peanuts and the bigger the store, the more work you'll be doing (for the same base pay as someone working at one of the smaller locations).

3.0
Jun 29, 2015

Current empoyee

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fun place to work, flexible schedules, no day is ever the same.

Cons

More work for less money. Benefits keep going down every year making in almost impossible to want to stay there.

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