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      Best Buy

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      Best Buy reviews

      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (41,911 total reviews)
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      Corie Barry

      34% approve of CEO

      38% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.5

      Culture & values

      3.5

      Work/Life balance

      3.2

      Compensation and benefits

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Senior management

      Best Buy has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 41,911 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Best Buy employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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      42K reviews
      2.0
      Dec 13, 2009

      Best Buy is a great place if you going to college, but once you have your degree get the hell out!

      Mobile sales consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great employees, most of the people I met while working there became some of my good friends. Some of them I hope to know for the rest of my life. Pay is good compared to other retailers.

      Cons

      Management is very self absorbed and arrogant. They love to promote young within this company at the store level. Most of the management are too young and were rushed to the top and developed a very large ego along the way. In order to get where they are you will have to kiss major ass, if thats your thing than by all means work at Best Buy. ( and i know that there are politics at every company, but much more so here. It is like you are in high school again!)

      1.0
      Dec 8, 2009

      Retail Churn, Sell the Service Plans blah blah blah.

      Sales associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Discounts on products Good location, easy access to most central areas Easy going nature of everyone (coworkers that is). Easy to look busy during slow periods.

      Cons

      Insane and contradictory management Mickey Mouse Training Systems Corporate Manta (TRUST) hell. Having to push scammy Geek Squad plans Pointless reward systems (pins). That most cheat to get. Working with all sorts of college dweebs and other anti-social geeknoids. Pay, No commission, while good in some ways, locks you in. Why bother to work harder?

      5.0
      Dec 8, 2009

      Best Buy Corporate HQ is a great place to work.

      Senior training specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I worked at the Corporate office and not in a Best Buy store. At the time, Brad Anderson was the CEO. He is an amazing person who shows respect for everyone working in his company. He brought in the work/life balance program called ROWE (results only work environment), which supports the belief that when people have the freedom to tend to their personal lives, they have much more to give in all areas, including their work. It removed the clock-watching aspect of work and people no longer could judge you if you left early to attend your child's school program or even if you needed to go shopping. We actually became more productive.

      Cons

      The only issue I ever had working there was that there still remained a sense of a good ole boys network, which I know Brad surely did not support, but it existed nonetheless. As a female, it could be off putting to have very few females in leadership roles. I know they are aware of this and are trying to promote women and other non-white males into leadership positions.

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