Circuit City Reviews

Pros

Bonus and Comissions were great if targets are made.

Cons

Too much emphasis on hitting targets. Base salary is low, so Bonus and comision are big carrots.

Advice to Senior Management

None. For right person this is ideal job. But keep an eye on ethics and fairness.

Pros

Decent coworkers, not too busy, reasonable compensation for solid sales when the company wasn't going under, comprehensive on-the-job training, plenty of breaks.

Cons

The folks up at corporate kept misdiagnosing the company's problems, leading to terrible policies and even worse programs (remember the oh-so-groundbreaking one price promise?). I had five supervisors breathing down my neck, and a regional manager who didn't really care for us folks on the bottom of the totem pole. It was difficult to keep a store with such shoddy display shelves clean, and the archaic point-of-sale system confused both the employees and customers.

Advice to Senior Management

I can't really put anything here, being that the company has been under in the US since 2009. But I can say something about electronics stores in general: there needs to be a reason for someone to walk into a store nowadays. With online retail, there isn't really much of a need to drive into a store to get what you need, if you're patient enough to wait for a package to ship. The reason that a lot of brick-and-moarter stores are failing is that they simply cannot adapt to the online boom. The old ways of working don't really apply anymore. An electronics store needs to be an experience. They need to provide a service (And I'm not talking about Geek Squad or Firedog) on top of the products that they sell.

Pros

The pay is fairly decent. I've known full time home/video specialist to make anywhere between 18-22 dollars an hour.

Cons

Job definitely gets boring at times.

Pros

They had good career growth opportunities.

Cons

Senior management disconnected from the realities in the field.

Pros

People worked with were great except for management.

Cons

Low pay, poor management not worth the time employed there.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees.

Pros

Good summer job, but not something you can make a career out of

Cons

bad pay, no incentive to work harder

Advice to Senior Management

give commissions

Pros

paycheck, friends, paycheck, discounts, paycheck

Cons

Management has no idea what they are doing

Advice to Senior Management

Managers need to learn how the companies runs

Pros

a lot of emphasis is placed on customer and employee satisfaction.

Cons

They closed all circuit city stores. Therefore no one can apply and work there.

Pros

One of the best things about working at Circuit City was the feeling, as if you were not just a team, but a family.

Cons

The only downside about working at Circuit City was the fact that they could not stay in business due to the economy.

Pros

friendly colleagues, nice customers, good discount

Cons

Insane management, very demanding, expected to work overtime while not asking for pay.

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate and be realistic.