Best Buy Reviews in Saint Louis, MO

Pros

- Quarterly bonuses
- Great opportunity from managements for leadership training
- Decent starting pay, even with no experience
- Really invest in your selling skills,and help whenever they can

Cons

- Your bonuses rely on your ability to meet those quarterly budgets. Not meeting budgets = no bonus
- Plenty of leadership training from management, but difficult to find a leadership position to move up to
- At times, it really can give off a stressful commissioned atmosphere when we're all hourly

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you're doing while you can

Pros

Great benefits, fun work environment. No day is ever the same.

Cons

Supervisor and assistant manager positions are challenging and will require round the clock dedication for success. High employee and management turnover.

Advice to Senior Management

This year and holiday season leadership increased aggressiveness in marketing, holiday hours, and pricing. Keep it up.

Pros

Able to move around a lot from position to position. Able to a crew a lot of experience from a lot of diferent areas

Cons

Like any place, the people make the job not the responsibility.

Advice to Senior Management

Stick with it, you are going to fail at something eventually. Its all about how you bounce back.

Pros

They really encourage you to have fun while being the best. New technology changing very quickly, so it's like working in a big toy store.

Cons

It's very high pressure to make a sale to hit your goal. Need to work on the training process. Geek Squad needs to improve.

Advice to Senior Management

Take time to get to know your employees, teach and train them properly. Make sure your customers have great in your store, there too many competitors out there.

Pros

Part-time benefits aren't bad ( 401k, Stock Purchase, Discount ). Hours are usually flexible around school or a second job.

Cons

Irregular hour distribution to part-time employees. Management and corporate are usually disjoint and ignorant of how their initiates are funneled down and implemented. There is a large disparity between corporate and the retail level.

Advice to Senior Management

Your line level employees are your greatest asset, yet you continue to treat them as disposable. You provide little training anymore, and instead rely on young employees to walk in the door knowing product. When there is training, it's either crammed into a weekend training or into learning lounges that no one has time to actually sit through.

Pros

Good discounts. Employees aside from management are nice and helpful.

Cons

High-pressure micromanagement with non-commissioned barely above minimum wage pay. Management doesn't seem to understand basic principles of leadership such as not lying to your employees or not ignoring them or paying them on time.

Advice to Senior Management

Put people in charge who have education and experience. Don't give your sales staff a hard time every time someone doesn't buy a TV especially if you don't pay commission. That $8.50/hr doesn't give you that much leverage.

Pros

Relatively easy job to get, fair pay for skill level, advancement opportunities if networked with the right members of management.

Cons

Not enough pay compensation for amount of work, favortism runs rampant, not enough hours for part-time employees, too little spots available for advancement

Advice to Senior Management

Know your staff, know the people who actually make a difference and not just the people who, excuse the language, kiss butt. More fair compensation for part-time associates, more hours

Pros

Everyday you get to meet new people and experience different personalities. Getting to help people succeed and find ways to improve their life is really what keeps me motivated.

Cons

Some leaders do not know how to treat their employees. They lack skills or the accountability of treating people like human beings. Some Managers are amazing and they keep employees wanting to work there, however they seem to be outnumbered.

Advice to Senior Management

Train Your GM's how to manage their direct reports so that they feel valued and appreciated. A company will only be successful if their employees feel valued and want to continue to work diligently for them. It would also be beneficial if the Leaders of the company were not so disconnected from the employees that serve their customers. Do not always manage through conference calls, but get small and talk to the part timers, full timers, and Am's.

Pros

You meet a lot of great people. You learn a lot about sales. You get to be knowledgeable about all the new electronics and there features.

Cons

Being a customer service representative a lot of other employees expect you to do a lot of their work.

Advice to Senior Management

Be fair to everyone and recognize those who do great work.

Pros

Discount
Make Good Friends
Get To Be Around Latest Technology

Cons

Management Always Changing Policies
Too Much Busy Work/Waste of Time
Management Obsessed With Retail Numbers
Do Not Respect Employees
Lack of Pay

Advice to Senior Management

See Above