Best Buy Reviews

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

Pros – I really enjoyed the additional product training that was provided. I gained some product knowledge from when I worked there that surprised many of my friends. You really do get an entirely new appreciation for the company as a whole. Sure there are some practices that you question, but the environment is awesome and Best Buy is still my store of choice when I shop.

Cons – I didn't realize how crazy customers can be sometimes. Some people come in thinking they know everything about a particular product, when their information is quite the opposite. Some customers are willing to change their stance, but others wholeheartedly believe they are correct.

Advice to Senior Management – I enjoyed not having the pressure to sell (no commission) and this actually helped me with a more relaxed sale approach as opposed to a more aggressive one (in which customers hate aggressive pitches), but there should be more incentives for obtaining sales goals.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Fellow employees, benefits, and commitment to their employees contribute to what I consider to be a great company to work for.

Cons – The only con I can think of is the OMS system that can be difficult to manage.

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

Former Employee – worked at Best Buy

Pros – people, cool products, pay (for a retail), environment

Cons – Normal politics that go on within a store

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – -Constant Trainings
-Great STI Bonuses
-Can work with days I request off
-Great Leadership
-Good Benefits once Full Time

Cons – -Some Managers push nubers versus customer experience
-Gossip, which is in every work place
-Constant battle to move up

Advice to Senior Management – Focus more on the customer experience, and not the numbers! If we are giving them the best experience, then it will reflect in numbers!

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

Current Employee – been working at Best Buy full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – non-comission but fare compensation(bonus-STI), great teamwork, latest technology, accommodations from various vendors and room for advancement.

Cons – influencing the young crowd of workers that are just there to work for school or while in high school.

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

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

Pros – bonus, advancement, technology, staff, atomoshere

Cons – high goals, lack of requireed training

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up teh chnages great direction

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

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

Pros – Friendly and positive managers and co-workers. They respect you and care about you. They let me leave for an internship and when I returned I got my job back.

Cons – Some of the required materials you have to sell are ridiculous. They threatened our jobs if we didn't reach a certain number of credit card apps. Store is noisy alarms go off constantly. Customers are idiots that think they're geniuses.

Advice to Senior Management – Refer to cons.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Best Buy full-time

Pros – Lots of cross training and opportunities for promotion

Cons – Good ole boys club, work/life balance

Advice to Senior Management – Get to know your associates

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Best Buy full-time for more than a year

Pros – Pay, managers, environment, Technology!!, flexible schedules

Cons – hours are sometimes not so great

Advice to Senior Management – Management is great where I work at

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Best Buy full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great work environment if you are working with the right people. Some customers could be a pain in the butt sometimes but for the most part I enjoy helping people out. It's not so much the job itself that keeps me coming in to work every day, its the family that is created with the other employees, even leadership.

Cons – If you are in a department with a lot of conflicting personalities, working with them could be difficult. Sometimes customers are just too much of a pain to deal with, and some create such big problems we just want to tell them to leave, but we cannot.

Advice to Senior Management – Make sure everyone is doing their job, and doing it correctly. Checks and balances need to be in place.

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