Is Best Buy a good company to work for?

Best Buy has an overall rating of 3.5 out of 5, based on over 43,467 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months. 60% of employees would recommend working at Best Buy to a friend and 38% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Best Buy have been left by employees working as Financial Analyst , Overnight Stocker and Bestbuy .

Does Best Buy pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Best Buy employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Best Buy. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Best Buy?

60% of Best Buy employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Best Buy 3.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.5 for culture and values and 3.2 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Best Buy?

Sales Associate (4868) , Customer Service Representative (1100) , Sales Advisor (1052) , Sales Consultant (1015) , Geek Squad, Consultation Agent (873) , Customer Service Specialist (571) , Product Flow Specialist (569) , Best Buy Mobile Sales Associate (562) , Inventory Specialist (542) , Retail Sales Associate (522) , Best Buy Sales Associate (415) , Sales (402) , Geek Squad, Agent (CIA) (363) , Cashier (352) , Computer Sales Associate (330)

What are the pros of working at Best Buy according to real employee reviews?

"Pay was good at $15 an hour and the hours at the time of this was nice." ((in 2581 reviews)); "the people you meet are great and if you want to move up in the company is great" ((in 2460 reviews)); "The benefits are great and the tasks are not extremely difficult" ((in 2042 reviews)); "The coworkers are great and know how to make a bad day turn out better." ((in 1463 reviews)); "I worked at Best Buy while I was in school and it was great because of the flexible hours." ((in 1078 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Best Buy according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management and mistreatment of staff caused a storewide exodus of more than 20 employees." ((in 2833 reviews)); "really bad managers with hr violations against them that best buy corporate would not handle." ((in 1265 reviews)); "No commission and weak motivational methods ultimately leads to a sense of aimlessness among floor salesmen." ((in 759 reviews)); "Too much favoritism in the store." ((in 556 reviews)); "no work life balance its a all hands on deck environment right now got to save the company" ((in 507 reviews))

What are employees saying about Best Buy layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Best Buy layoffs and their outlook for job security at Best Buy in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Best Buy locations?

Richfield , Minneapolis , Houston , New York , Chicago , Atlanta , Los Angeles , Dallas , San Antonio , Miami , Orlando , Austin , San Diego , Phoenix , Charlotte , Tampa , Boston , Saint Louis , Denver , Columbus , San Jose , Indianapolis , Jacksonville , Portland , Las Vegas , Oklahoma City , Seattle , Brooklyn , Cincinnati , Louisville

Best Buy reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(41,913 total reviews)

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 41,913 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

5.0

Aug 15, 2011

Solid Company to work for. Leaders who allow you to shine and challenges you at the same time

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits, Stability, Positive Brand, Broad range of opportunities. Each employee has the opportunity to contribute to the overall achievements of the company by sharing (and being rewarded for...) their unique innovative ideas. Leadership is focused on helping employees find work and tasks in their roles that they enjoy and do well. The developmental focus in leveraging your strengths not working on your weaknesses.

Cons

This is a very interesting concept: As a leader, you must be able to descern how and when you work. Work life balance can suffer not due to the pressures of the job; but due to the passion that employees find in their jobs. This is very evident at the Exempt level. Leaders are encourged to make on-purpose time for family and personal life,.

2.0

Aug 13, 2011

Too bad because there is so much potential

Sales supervisor

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits for an hourly employee are great. Tuition reimbursement, health insurance, 401k. This is only if you are a full time employee. Get to work with awesome new technology. Fast paced. You will get to know how to sell and how to make sales relationships. Great and fun people to work with often times.

Cons

Senior management are very short sided and change messaging constantly. Never a consistant message so it is not always clear to what you are supposed to do to be promoted or to be considered as doing well. One day it could be service plans, the next it could be credit cards. The next it could be missing signs but there is no formula for what good looks like and it is very frustrating.

3.0

Aug 12, 2011

Fun if you don't care about money

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

You get paid to be a geek all day. You get to play with and learn about electronics. Your will get along with your coworkers because they all have the same interests as you.

Cons

The pay is terrible. So are the requirements for you to be available. Good luck finding a 2nd job. You are expected to push expensive HDMI cables even though the cheap ones are just as good

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