Best Buy reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(41,818 total reviews)
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Corie Barry

35% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Best Buy has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 41,818 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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4.0
Aug 26, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a fairly simple job with lots of work to keep you busy. Employee discounts and compensation with bonuses are great. Good benefits with medical, dental and 401k and plenty of vacation and paid time off.

Cons

Big con is you can only make so much money. Your salary caps out at a certain point and you can no longer receive raises. There is also very little room for advancement to supervisor or manager to increase that salary.

2.0
Aug 5, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you are in favor and have a senior leader backing you, BBY is very proactive at development. The leaders (Brad Anderson and Brian Dunn), I believe, are very ethical and committed to their employees. There are many smart people and a commitment to creativity.

Cons

Best Buy is split into four groups: Retail, Corporate, Consultants and Subsidiaries. The retail group is dominated by excessively competitive types who regularly violate their own ethical code to achieve career objectives. There is a great deal of hubris in this area and it will eventually lead BBY to ruin if left unchecked. The Corporate group are smart and capable, but for the most part also obsessed with whether they will be around in a month and their next career move. Senior leadership inked a deal with Accenture that gave too much control of key operational areas to a single entity, leading to a predictable level of conflict between expectations and deliverables. The integration of BBY's subsidiaries have been a failure, largely due to the lack of an effective merger and acquisition strategy, and the unchecked interference by one or all of the other groups above.

4.0
Dec 14, 2014

Great place to work but has its many downs

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good startng pay but not nearly enough for the amount work and things you have to put up with. Can be fairly reasonable at scheduling but will try to work you as much as possible.

Cons

Really bad to post schedules and notify of any changes made Hard to move up or change departments

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