Best Buy Canada Reviews in Vancouver, BC Area

Pros

Allow a young individual to manage a large number of associates.

Allows for growth potential professionally and personally.

Can be promote fairly quickly

Cons

Need to have openings above before you are moved up.

When senior management is in need, they direct the blame downwards

Advice to Senior Management

I have not worked directly with leadership at Best Buy Canada and cannot comment on their working. But wages quite low.

Pros

General new employee training was good
The discount - except have to wait 3 months to use it
Decent starting pay

Cons

My training for home theater has been really bad. I was given very little instruction and overall the department seems kind of unorganized.
Working in a huge store, not very personal
I felt like they didn't really inform me about everything i needed to know on my first couple of shifts
difficult learning curve about products
annoying sales approach

Advice to Senior Management

Ensure that new employees are properly trained and looked after
Get to know the employees better
Be available for questions/review
Schedule more people

Pros

Being non-commissioned is relaxing if you have other things going on in your life, such as school. Management is usually very nice and supportive.

Cons

This isn't a place where you can make money if you try harder. My store recently laid off much of its full time leadership staff. I also got the feeling sometimes that management talks behind your back.

Advice to Senior Management

I'm not a fan of our "non-commission, no pressure" model, while our supervisors get paid bonuses and we're compared on a national scorecard that has no end. If you compare everyone to everyone, half of the stores will be on the bottom. Therefore half the people are branded as insufficient performance. So much for no commission-no pressure.

Pros

The technology is interesting and working with customers is good.

Cons

Living in poverty.
Erratic and generally poor management.
Most jobs are part time 10 to 20 hours per week.

Advice to Senior Management

Respect your employees more. Lots of lip service but little committment.

Pros

if you are looking for a company to advance with and you are a keener, Best Buy is the place for you,
sky is the limite.

Cons

if you do not like any type of pressure just want to get in to work and get out, don't like responsibility, not looking for growth, it's not the place for you

Advice to Senior Management

some of your stores are start to do this very well, but promote the right people up fast, or else they will go somewhere with better offers, like I did.

Pros

easy entry, good place to earn expirence if you didn't have any. Friendly highschool like work environment.

Cons

non-comissioned, low salary, quote on warranty sales. They will come 'talk' to you if you can't achieve the sales goal. Some supervisor are jerks who just want the bonus but didn't care about the feelings of his staff members.

Advice to Senior Management

we are non-commissioned..stop pressuring us to sale the warranties or accescories. leave them to the commission sales persons.

Pros

Great employee discounts , however the pay scale is poor and management tend to treat staff like servants which are generally ignored BUT constantly harassed to perform in a superhuman manner when staff is being cut back to unreasonable levels. Of course the management blames inaction for poor results. Perhaps they should dispose of the computerized scheduling system which only allows maximum staffing at projected high traffic periods.

Cons

Management doesn't like to listen to staff recommendations or request for help.

Advice to Senior Management

ACTUALLY LISTEN TO PEOPLE WORKING FOR YOU. You can learn alot more from the staffing than some damn goofy formula that has little to do with the day to day realities.