Bose reviews

3.8

56% would recommend to a friend

(270 total reviews)
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76% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

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4.0
Mar 17, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

A great company in regards to products, discounts, and company bonus payouts. The work/life balance is superb as almost all managers treat you professionally and allow you the freedom to come and go as needed with no looking over your shoulder.

Cons

The lack of opportunities for advancement can be demoralizing. It seems a select few are tapped for promotions or offered the opportunity to try something new, which leads to advancement.

5.0
Mar 12, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great products, great team, great pay for a relatively easy job. Team-sales culture. Very attentive to detail (if you are into that, I am). Generous pay, benefits, tuition reimbursement, free product, contests, employee wellness programs. Lots of care and concern are paid to their employees.

Cons

Mission remains the same but the business-drivers change yearly. I was with the company from 06-12 and took the brunt of the economic downturn on the nose. Lack of new competitive products at the time, but they have since modernized their image and product line. District managers can be picky during their visits to otherwise pristine stores ("make sure all the thumb-tacks on the cork boards are the same color"). Scripted presentations can be difficult and monotonous to learn and deliver verbatim for some. It's retail so you will work when your friends are enjoying holidays off but that goes for any retail job.

4.0
Feb 10, 2014

Great retail environment

Recommend
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Pros

Bose offers high end customer service to their customers, and genuinely cares about it's staff.

Cons

Bose does not offer competitive salaries based on Cost of Living. Instead, it averages the comparable salaries of other companies throughout the entire country. This means that in an area with a generally low cost of living you stand to earn a very good income, but you will struggle to get by in an area that has a high cost of living. They argue that the Team Based Sales commission evens it out, but the reality is that they are only offering a 0.003 to 1% Sales Commission!

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