Best Buy Reviews in Denver, CO

Former Employee – worked at Best Buy part-time for less than a year

Pros – I like the company for pay, awesome co-workers, the product, and some discounts were amazing. Loved being a resource for people. got alot of amazing training and product knowledge that i will always carry with me.

Cons – All in all its an awesome company to work for but its none commission (which is cool for me) but they push to sale! .. none stop pushing to sale for revenue buget and margin. which is still benefitcal because you still get bonus for the month off of 100% budget. I loved the people, but for the store i worked for 186 broomfield co, some of the managment treated you like your stupid or a 4 year old. making people ''explain why they took this step for this reason and what their ''consequence should be'', the discount kind of blows because usually its family anywhere else, but for best buy they say only YOU!!! then i love how you work 39.5 hours and considered part time no beneifits and your bonus is only 15% of buget and full time working 37+ hrs you get 35% of buget

Advice to Senior Management – Treat the associates with respect! were not 5 years old. people make mistakes and its NONE COMMISION! DONT PUSH TO SALE.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Best Buy part-time for less than a year

Pros – Awesome managers and coworkers. Good work environment

Cons – not enough hours/ only part time

Advice to Senior Management – hire less employees and give more hours to employees

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

Former Employee – worked at Best Buy full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Big Company, can travel nationwide and always find a job

Cons – NOt a good place for women to work. The career path is not designed around working moms.

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

Former Employee – worked at Best Buy part-time for more than a year

Pros – Flexible schedule, usually great people to work with and it is a job.

Cons – Most of the managers had their favorites and if you weren't one of them then they made your life miserable, ruining the overall experience of Best Buy.

Advice to Senior Management – Try and be fair.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Best Buy

Pros – Good discounts, job referral bonuses and regular bonuses.

Cons – its a retail job with limited future.

Advice to Senior Management – better communication

Current Employee – been working at Best Buy

Pros – Pay is above that of most other similar positions. The company is constantly growing which give individuals a chance for growth

Cons – absolutely zero work life balance. You are expected to sacrifice your family life in order to drive sales. Questionable ethics in how sales are achieved (over charging and "pushing" unneccessary products on consumers). Employees are treated as numbers and are easily replaceable with no regard for their families.

Advice to Senior Management – Practice what you preach and treat employees as family. dont put an hourly cap on your teams because you feel the need to make an additional 20 million annually.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Best Buy

Pros – The employee discount can be really good on certain items.
It's easy to transfer from store to store if need be.
Fellow employees are easy to get along with

Cons – Management can be difficult in regards to making purchases with your discount.
Mid-level managers are horrible.
They want you to sell too much junk at the cash register.
Management cares way too much about store numbers, often to the detriment of the customer.

Advice to Senior Management – People often come to BB knowing what they want. They don't want a credit card, magazine subscription, rewards card, or a service plan if they are buying a mouse and a cd for $30 total. The strategy of annoying customers into submission is failing.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Best Buy

Pros – Some of the pros of working at best buy include a benefits package, and "competivie salary." They tend to start Merchandising/warehouse employees off between $8.50 - $10/hr. Managers make substantially more, as do supervisors, so if you are looking to get promoted it can become a decent source of income. The environment is generally positive, and they are usually pretty flexible with scheduling.

Cons – Best Buy is suffering from the slow economy, similar to other electronics retailers, and so in some markets they have scaled back spending in some areas, including merchandising. This cut back may make it more difficult for some to perform their job at a level which would meet the requirements for getting promoted.

Advice to Senior Management – Come up with an effective game plan.

Former Employee – worked at Best Buy

Pros – Employee Discount, Long Term Incentive, Short Term Incentive, Overall Pay, hours, flexible shift times are available, not too busy all the time

Cons – Unrealistic expectations, Beetings Lack of work life balance, managers are not developed into future leaders, managers are rewarded off of luck, budgets, or severe favoratism from District HR and the District Staff

Advice to Senior Management – Think long term in development, one month does not a bad manager make, there is something called a retail cycle, bad years often follow good years, compound growth was because of the housing growth and economy, lack of growth is from the economy, flat panels sales have flattened, what do you think will happen to sales? Wake up and stop firing people because that is all you know how to do.