Best Buy reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(41,882 total reviews)
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35% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Best Buy has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 41,882 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 Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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42K reviews
5.0
Sep 3, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Great environment, one of the very few places that you can enjoy your job. It gives me a chance to learn what i am interested in. I came from a job where i made six dollars more an hour, that i hated. Would not go back for the money, i am satasfied doing this kind of work, the people that work there are really great, at least at the best buys that i have worked at. I have traveled to different states on paid best buy events. Stayed in a nice hotel. had my meals paid for. they are really flexible with their schedule.

Cons

Inside the general public you have rotten eggs, some of them frequently visit best buy. Some people just dont understand why things are done the way they are done, and some do not want to, but thats technology i guess, people just dont understand sometimes. Like why do we not give tech support on router security setup if you buy them at our store. WELL, First, not everyone at best buy knows how, and the people that do are probable paid a little more than your average bb employee. That router you got on sale, we made maybe ten bucks on, but then minus shipping and the time it took to ship it, plus our light bill. Next, walking through some ppl on a router setup could take 45 min easy. We just lost money. But yet some people will insist that it is bad business. I think some personal responsibility for educating themselves is in order.

3.0
Aug 28, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

discount is main benefit but as retail gets more competive that is starting to disappear and 401k is available to everyone even part timers which is good

Cons

advancement is hard for part time. to move to full time jobs they require you to be available for more than 50 hours in a week even though you can only work 40

3.0
Aug 25, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

discount you get. management is easy going. super stylish blue shirts are versatile outside of work. name tags are particularly shiny. employees are young, youthful, beautiful, sexual, and bi-curious.

Cons

salary isn't fantastic. upward mobility is nonexistent. not enough pizza parties. customers are a real downer to this job. this position would be perfect if you never had to deal with customers. lots of buzzing and blinking and chirping electronics all around the store. the possibility that at any time, if computers and the like where to become self aware, that this workplace would be in the "danger zone" of their human-wrath.

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