Barnes & Noble Reviews

I worked at Barnes & Noble full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Worked with and met interesting and fun people. Fed a love of books, music and movies.

Cons – Increasing pressure to meet (unrealistic) target goals to appease stock holders make managing on a day to day level frustrating (and sometimes outright impossible)

Advice to Senior Management – Spend more time in the trenches to get a realistic view of what you are asking for - the industry is transforming and B&N is throwing initiatives at the wall to see what might stick

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Barnes & Noble part-time for more than a year

Pros – lots of interactions with customers, perks, discounts, easy

Cons – disorganized shift leaders, boring, little training on the floor, too many cuts in the cafe

Advice to Senior Management – More concrete benchmarking for raises

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Barnes & Noble part-time

Pros – Barnes and nobles is a good atmosphere to work at

Cons – Barnes and nobles get s dirty

I worked at Barnes & Noble full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – getting to work around books, and usually fun co-workers, very decent benefits for full-time employees

Cons – working with general public, transitioning company, work load, in my experience store politics made it difficult to advance

Advice to Senior Management – i understand profit/loss principles, but payroll hours/compensation need to be increased in order to keep company moral up and prevent the high turnover rates

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Barnes & Noble part-time for more than a year

Pros – - The company has an excellent discount for employees.
- You will have intelligent conversations with people searching for various books
- If you do your job, the management will entrust you with added responsibility

Cons – - Some locations have worse customers than others (Aventura, FL being chief among them)
- Pressure to sell memberships and e-readers

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Barnes & Noble full-time

Pros – health insurance and an employee discount,

Cons – no communication between corporate and store employees
the starting pay is $8.00 an hour and is capped at 11.75 for a bookseller position. Several other retailers in the area have a starting pay of $13.00 an hour.

Advice to Senior Management – Communicate, pay your employees better

I have been working at Barnes & Noble part-time

Pros – -Around books all day
-Customers are nice
-Job isn't very stressful
-Flexible Schedule
-Nice co-workers
-50% off at B&N Starbucks and 30% off of books

Cons – -When the store isn't busy your shifts get cancelled
-I don't get a lot of hours
-When you work music it's boring
-Minimum wage
-Overstaffed

Advice to Senior Management – Pay more attention to employees. Most of the time managers are nowhere to be found

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Barnes & Noble full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Every day you have helped customers improve their life in some way, sometimes really significantly.

Cons – The company is adjusting quickly to a changing market and that means that key components of your job description change often, without much notice, and without much room for negotiation.

Advice to Senior Management – If investment of resources to the retail stores continues to decline, no one will believe Mr. Lynch anymore when he insists the company is dedicated to service through the retail side.

I have been working at Barnes & Noble full-time

Pros – The culture is good with some perks that give the company a "dot com" feel to it. In a great neighborhood. Pay is good.

Cons – The company keeps shifting priorities and makes organizational changes frequently which makes the employees scrambling to keep up and prove themselves over and over.

Advice to Senior Management – Be more transparent and tell the employees what's going on. The Palo Alto team and NY technology teams need managers that want collaboration.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Barnes & Noble part-time

Pros – B&N has flexible scheduling for college kids

Cons – No room for growth at the entry level

Advice to Senior Management – Train your employees better and learn to spot talented ones

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend