One of the Best Buy thinkers - Sales Associate Best Buy Employee Review

4.0
Jan 31, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

It provides nice and clean environment. Friendly workers that makes you feel at home. Nevertheless, Best Buy offers great working experience and well training program. This allows many people like me , unexperienced to feel secure and knows the product better. As to my experience, not many places do well trainings. They simply just let you go free and learn from trial and error. Without a dobut, it is a tough way to learn because people tend to stretch out and nervous when they made a mistake. Aside from that, Best Buy does offer good employee discounts that is very valuable to staff.

Cons

The downsides include time schedule and punch clock system. The clock system is really strange because you must punch in 3minutes before and after the time. Otherwise it will not work. and during lunch the 30 minute rule is fairly strict. which is why a downside. In the meantime, time schedule tends to be not too flexible. Although I did say that best buy offers good training system, it is more of a introductory level. All the details are hard to know unless you ask to know. Workers tend to be young and not that responsible. These are the downsides for Best Buy

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