Best Buy Reviews in Atlanta, GA Area

Pros

Great wages for high school and college people

Cons

hours can be a little tough sometimes

Advice to Senior Management

none at this time

Pros

money, and opportunity, cool product

Cons

politics, lack of respect, not set up to win

Advice to Senior Management

treat your people like they matter

Pros

The employee discount is very nice, many items are discounted quite a bit. Plus you can use it at any Best Buy across the country. The co-workers are friendly. Best Buy pays for training and certifications depending on which department you are in.

Cons

Even the small stores have too many managers, usually 5 or 6. The managers don't sell anything, even if they're right next to a customer they'll call an associate over the radio to come help the customer instead of trying to help. The managers constantly keeping close watch, almost like they're waiting for you to mess up.

Advice to Senior Management

accommodate the employees more and don't be above dealing with the everyday customer

Pros

Working at Best Buy gives you the ability to stay up to date on the latest and greatest that technology has to offer. Also the employee discount on some products is very good. But being in a non-commissioned sales environment is beneficial to perfecting your people skills and how to negotiate with people. You also get to learn how to work in an environment where you have to rely on your fellow employees to help you accomplish your goals. You have job security being that Best Buy is the number one consumer electronics company in the world, the even have their own NASCAR Driver. Some other good reasons to work at Best Buy is that there are great opportunities to advance. Every year new stores are opening and that means more management staff is required and also district and territories either are expanding or being created which means higher level/ higher paying jobs are being created as well.

Cons

Some of the downsides to working at Best Buy is having to put up with ignorant, rude, idiotic customers. The old saying "the customer's always right" is usually followed sadly. Some people just don't deserve a 10% off discount because they shop at Best Buy 3 times a year and spend 200 dollars there. To many customers come in thinking that they are entitled to a discount when in fact they aren't, since employees are not commissioned based we can't just give people a discount. another downside is that some of the people in charge are stupid. Also even though you are not paid commission sometimes the sales floor is treated as if you are commission based, and if you don't attach everything than you aren't doing a good enough job. Some good salesmen get promoted to positions of authority and sadly they can not execute those jobs well at all.

Advice to Senior Management

They need to start reading some leadership books because at the store level to many people are horrible leaders. The company tends to promote good salesmen into managerial positions and sadly being able to sell a television or computer does not mean you are qualified to lead other salesmen.