Bed Bath & Beyond Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Bed Bath & Beyond full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Very organized and Customer Service focused

Cons – Managers are not respected. Glorified stock person and cashier. Store manager and District very overworked and fearful of their jobs and it trickles down.

Advice to Senior Management – Spend a little more money and hire people.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Bed Bath & Beyond full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Benefits, Stability & Debt Free Company

Cons – The absolute worst training programs that I have ever encountered. 50 hour weeks are the minimum. Labor modeling over the past 3 years has erroded the quality of life that previously existed for management. Low upward mobility in BB&B. The segment to work in is Buy Buy Baby (the expansion area). Annual raises 0-2.2% will be the norm. Hire on and stay at the Department Manager Level.

Advice to Senior Management – Break the model and reinvest labor back into the locations to bolster the Customer Service Levels back to when BB&B was the leader in the field.

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bed Bath & Beyond full-time for more than a year

Pros – Will pay a very good rate for the type of mindless work they hire experienced managers for.
Great customer service
Busy stores. Will learn alot fast
Decent co-workers-most really work hard and deserve better.

Cons – They advertise for store managers and district managers. But their goal is to hire these experienced retail pros and then give them no one to manage. They expect you to train yourself and do 90% of the grunt work. Promises of promotions are dangled like a carrot but few last people will last the two to three years for a promotion. The ladder climbing in a busy store is a killer. Had to ask permission to use the restroom! Treated like a complete idiot as is everyone else.

Advice to Senior Management – You are the best at luring quality managers in and then burning them out. It is degrading but people need the money and the over 50 managers need the job opportunity. Poor quality upper management ruins any chance at keeping good managers. It will catch up to you someday.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bed Bath & Beyond part-time for less than a year

Pros – Great co-workers, Always Friendly environment.

Cons – Won't pay what your worth. Managers leave for better jobs all the time.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Bed Bath & Beyond part-time for less than a year

Pros – They work with your hours, or so they say.
20% discount.
Co-workers are really chill.
If you don't know much about household items and appliances, you'll learn a lot through working here.
Lots of training; potentially a good thing, along with really annoying.
Great starting off pay.

Cons – Managers are backstabbers and will always talk behind your back.
Never get the right amount of credit for anything.
Extremely limited amount of hours.
On a ladder every - single - day.
Tons of running around.
Only managers get full time.

Advice to Senior Management – Please learn that a lot of things take time and if a request is made, know that there's a load of other things that are being done and worked on.
Also, get better walkie-talkies. Tons of static and it's really hard to hear people.
Hire people for actual positions, don't make them run around from one position to another unless it's requested. So annoying.
I can't emphasize this enough: IF IT'S PEAK HOURS, DON'T HAVE ONLY A COUPLE OF PEOPLE ON THE FLOOR OR THE BARE MINIMUM! ALWAYS HAVE A NICE, EVEN AMOUNT OF DISTRIBUTED PEOPLE ON THE FLOOR! If there is however a limited amount of people on the floor, DO NOT expect your requests and projects to be done when the employee is bombarded with six different customers while also on a ladder.

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

Former Employee – worked at Bed Bath & Beyond full-time for more than a year

Pros – Bed Bath & Beyond does offer a wonderful salary and infinite ways in which to grow your career!

Cons – I worked 6 days a week and 15 hours a day. This was not because I did not perform my job well and my hourly employees were very good. This was just what it took to keep up with, not only the customer service that is demanded--which is GREAT, but also the expectations of the job. It is what it is, but some of the extreme philosophies create a revolving door for some extremely good talent. Welcome to retail.

Advice to Senior Management – Depending on the BB&B location and its store manager, BB&B can come across as a sweatshop that at least believes in paying a very fair wage. You may want to rethink having managers announce when they have to step off the floor to go to the restroom over a walkie talkie in addition to how long you will be off the floor, and allow department managers enough off floor time to keep stockrooms together. This will not only allow for more efficient storing and pulling, which will increase sales, but also will prevent inventorying the same merchandise for 15 years that should have been marked down and zeroed out in the system long ago.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Bed Bath & Beyond part-time for more than a year

Pros – Company makes sure you get all the knowledge you need to help/satisfy the customers.

Cons – You don't get paid enough to do what you are expected to do.

Advice to Senior Management – Management is always really helpful and very knowledgeable

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bed Bath & Beyond part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Flexible company
Fun environment
Good starting pay
Fast paced

Cons – Very hard to get full time
Very hard to move up
They don't promote from within
Raises are very small
If you have good senior managers, it can be a really fun/great place to work. But if you have lazy seniors, or your district manager is cheap, then it can be really frustrating.

Advice to Senior Management – Promote from within more.

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

Current Employee – been working at Bed Bath & Beyond part-time for more than a year

Pros – Flexible scheduling, positive environment, high quality instruction and training, good customer service work ethic .

Cons – Can have a tendency to overwork their associates, high expectations for lower pay, out dated computer systems.

Advice to Senior Management – Would suggest less "micromanagement" and more oppurtunities for advancement and pay raises.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Bed Bath & Beyond for less than a year

Pros – Pay is great! Very flexible work hours.

Cons – Not much organization. Nothing much else.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire more people

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend