Micro Center reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(1,561 total reviews)

Richard M. Mershad

71% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Micro Center has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,561 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Micro Center employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
4.0
Oct 12, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great management here. Many opportunities to advance and pay is performance based, so the better you do, the better you are compensated.

Cons

Sometimes feels impossible to get anything done without escalating it to senior manager.

3.0
Oct 8, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Many different positions within a store, Cashier, Customer Service, IT, Warehouse, Gaming, General Sales, Build Your Own, and Systems. I was General Sales. The hours are flexible and great coworkers. Many of whom I am really good friends with now. And if you're like me and knew very little about computers, you learn a lot as you you go fairly quickly. If you put in the effort, opportunity to advance is almost certain. Often they would recognize excellent service and you would be rewarded. In one instance I won a Wii. Also a pretty good employee pricing system. And standard benefits as well.

Cons

The management was often the core issue. Partly because of the constant change, while there, we went through 3 General Managers and 4 Store Managers. But mostly the problem was task assignments. I am in sales and get paid $4/hr plus commission. I NEED to sell in order to make money. Taking us to the back to unload from a truck inventory is not our job. I understand that we can stock merchandise from totes while we're on the sale floor, but taking us completely away from the opportunity to sell is just ridiculous. Then on top of that they would sometimes keep us 2-3 hours after the store closed. And same thing with opening, they started calling us in 2-3 hours before the store opened. 1 hour before/after is what we agreed upon anything beyond that is unreasonable. Once again, we are paid $4/hr. When we take vacation hours, they use what we make on average to pay us that rate hourly. If we're working 6-10 hours off the floor, that will drop our average pay. It just seemed to me that they weren't willing to hire the appropriate staff for the tasks and they were just taking advantage of the sales reps.

4.0
Aug 21, 2013

Micro Center Electronics

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very good salaries and pay structure Excellent benefits Cohesive management team in the stores

Cons

Stores are regional, so little to no opportunity for advancement.

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