Best Buy reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(41,884 total reviews)
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35% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Best Buy has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 41,884 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
3.0
Apr 15, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Results Only Work Environment allows you to work where ever and when ever you want as long as you deliver results. Every employee gets a laptop. Good cafe on site. Campus has a bank, dry cleaner, video games, pool tables and a theater that you can use to watch movies. The company knows it needs to change to survive in this industry. 401K match is 4% is given right away - no vesting period. Medical benefits and options are very strong. Lots of opportunities to have an impact on the business and to get a seat at the table depending on your role.

Cons

Like most retailers, they underpay compared to other industries. Performance reviews put you into a box and becomes difficult to move once you are in a box - hence first impressions are super important. Cost cutting has resulted in downsizing and now nobody has much job security. We have watched our main competitors die but have not really come up with a killer value prop that would allow us to survive in the long term. So much focus on stock price and growth that sometimes we run just to be running. Ready, shoot, aim mentality prevails as well as old boy's clubs.

3.0
Apr 12, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They offer a pretty good discount.

Cons

Like any other retail store, you have to deal with BS either from customers or managers. Workers get promoted based on how cool they are with managers, if they are sleeping with them, and finally, if they carry on the role and responsibility for the title they want before they actually get compensated for it. Meaning, you have to take the role of a supervisor and deal with all the crap for like 8 months or so before you even get the opportunity to JOS for the job and even then the title is not secure.

3.0
Apr 11, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It was okay working there, they promote a lot from the inside which is cool. I started the same day as one of my friends making 8.75 but I only worked there for 7 months. He still works there two years later and got promoted to Install Supervisor and makes around $15 an hour now.

Cons

The bosses are overall lame and didn't give credit where it was due. They would only notice when something wasn't done right and then complain about that.

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