Circuit City Reviews

Pros

The people were great and overall the best I've worked with in my career.

Cons

Management made snap decisions without sufficient data to support the long term decisions. Too many short term decisions were made for too long.

Advice to Senior Management

You blew it.

Pros

Requirements manageable,systems very helpful. good management in stores

Cons

Travel, communication from management to store line employees

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

Lots of fun.
Great discounts and vendor accommodations
Lots of training

Cons

Firing of senior employees to save money
awful CEO

Advice to Senior Management

Got rid of the CEO too late.

Pros

This was a great company to work for. There people were always fun, great opportunities but the pay was really not great for how much time one put into the company.

Cons

Pay pay pay or lack thereof. Greedy CEO cause the company to go under. Too many knowledgeable people were fired simply because they got paid like deserving employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Ceo should really make sure that the staff is well paid and happy in order to keep employees happy which will then in turn lead to happy customers and maybe the company wouldn't have gone under.

Pros

At the time the hourly rate for this position was better than many retail position, and it was the highest paying sales job in the store.

Cons

Management was always watching me. It made the job a bit stressful. No incentives for selling warranties or expensive products.

Advice to Senior Management

Give more guidance on how to more effectively sell. Don't just tell me to sell sell sell, teach!!! And dont always watch me.

Pros

Friendly atmosphere, helpful management, Cool coworkers

Cons

Sometimes a little disorganized
They hire naive kids

Advice to Senior Management

Overall, I enjoyed my time here while it lasted( went out of business). It was a fun experience.

Pros

People working there were great. Learned a great deal about hardware and software through their Firedog learning program as well as through experience.

Cons

Taking a turn for the worse has really affected their business. It is quite noticeable that the policies have changed, so communication is often difficult. Before Chapter 11, it was clear working in the store that bad things were happening, but nothing was said, even internally. The workplace could have been more organized, but overall it wasn't bad to work there.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't spend billions of dollars on promises that you can't keep.

Pros

Good Pay and Benefits. Fun people to work with. Good technology.

Cons

Can be alot of hours once you become a manager. High level corporate management didnt understand what customer wanted. Not enough hourly associates to cover sales floor and not enough hours budgeted for good customer service.

Advice to Senior Management

Change less. Customers became confused by so much strategy changing.

Pros

Great Company to grow with throughout the years. It's too bad that the upper management did not take care of the company.

Cons

Out of business, which is sad since the operations were solid. We had very poor upper management that ignored our customers and employees needs.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't do what CC did by ignoring your customers and employees needs. Change for the better, not to just change.

Pros

The people were friendly and it was a pretty solid place to work. It's really too bad it went out of business.

Cons

The only real downside to working at Circuit City was the corporate leadership running us into the ground. At the store level it was a great place to work.

Advice to Senior Management

Store level leadership was superb, corporate level was lacking, as is obvious with the fact that Circuit City is no longer in business.