Thankless, Glorified sales - Geek Squad, Consultation Agent Best Buy Employee Review

3.0
Mar 21, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Diverse problems Regional management is great Better retail employer than most

Cons

The reality of this job is a company that uses you as a proxy to sell memberships. If you get lucky and have the curiosity you might actually get to solve some problems, and be genuinely helpful. The company is actively working against you because it's operating from a 90s point of view in terms of computer repair. Now the real. You will get burned out. Between appleholes who need their dumb iPhones fixed immediately or expect you to wave a magic wand and unlock their android/iPhone (I swear I've never set a password!) and older folks who have had their lives destroyed by tech support scams, you'll soon realize GS is a department stuck in a 90s mentality of Retail IT Support. You will grow to hate scammers. Through empathy and active listening you will learn more about social engineering and the psychology of victims better and faster than a senior SOC engineer because you will have far more exposure. It doesn't matter if you can fix a Wi-Fi issue in ten minutes through downloading a driver. You are heavily incentivized to sell the membership, check in the computer, and turn that ten minute turn around into several days. It's stupid, wasteful, and myopic.

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No Need to sell or deal with customers (Much) Constantly moving so you always have a task to do Management leaves you to your own devices Almost all warehouse employees have a set of headphone

Cons

Everyone (Cust & employees) Expect an encyclopedic knowledge on where every single item is. Management seems to think we can lift a 85" tv, pull a washer off the top shelf, stock gaming shelves, and handle store pick up at the same moment. Customers think we don't want to help them when we call someone else to help with sales There's almost too much to do and even though we may have 1-3 employees working at a time, 1 is at the door, 1 is behind store pick up, which leaves 1 employee to handle new orders, deliveries, and down stocking.

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