Bed Bath & Beyond reviews

As a previous individual stated "Be careful about taking a job in the corp. office! The position I took paid well, but the management and culture were horrific!! Management treats their people very poorly and turnover is high in many departments. If you look on their website there are always TONS of jobs available. Wondering why? Because Bed Bath does not value their people....Just like anything, if you think something is too good to be true, it probably is....It was easy to get hired at a good salary, putting up with the bosses and culture you have to work in...not so easy." To add, the management are clueless, you have one that during an interview, will rudely interrupt you without reason. I have no idea how this person got the position, oh wait, he worked at the same company as the greasy man above him! Cronyism is alive and well here. You have people slogging through the wrong technology attempting to do something that is relatively simple and they are adamant about it. There is a high attrition rate, and I have no doubt why. The culture is atrocious and you are peppered with ridiculous rules and management does NOT value your skills, they like to act like blowhards and pompous buffoons. I suppose this is the part in which they excel. If you have extensive experience, they will trounce you in order to make themselves feel better. They also poorly use SCRUM methodologies. I never seen groups that speak about parts of projects that have nothing to do with one another. I can attest, that the negatives that others state are only the tip of the iceberg. Your position would be in flux, you might as well call yourself a CEO since your title and position would not reflect properly what you do. I hold the CEO accountable, because the culture reflects upon him. If I were him, I would purge management and start over. A very dissatisfying company! Go elsewhere, there are many companies out there and particularly within IT that are a thousand times better. You have been warned.

Antiquated systems, everyone says this but this company really takes the cake. Internal computer systems like JDA that are DOS based and materially haven't changed in almost 10 years. Redundancies and inefficiencies are almost boundless throughout all; JDA, bednet/portal, estore finally got just got improvements so that caught up to most other retailers from 5 years ago. Culture became progressively more abusive over the years in management. Over-reliance on claimed operational efficiency improvements to reduce payroll and headcount over the years, some of it is real and did actually make an impact but a lot of it boils down to the reality that cutting a cake 6 ways or 12 leaves you with the same amount, the slack is picked up by managers working more/ pushing already over-tasked associates for more more more which is just burn and churn. The risk of getting a poor mystery shop score/ customer complaint is like having a knife being held over you at all times, if you're in management and either of these things happen directly related or mentioning to you it will negatively impact your review/ result in a possible write up etc. BBB stores are done with major growth so the opportunities for advancement have greatly diminished as now its more about who you know, who gets fired or quits, more chance than ability. Store level management autonomy and authority has steadily been decreasing over the years, to a point now that even simple things like having a formal conversation with a minimum wage associate needs an HR review beforehand and you have a district level nanny for everything; district manager, operations trainer, HR, LP, customer service. Its like being in High School where every teacher thinks that their subject is the only one you have.