Circuit City Reviews

Pros

Great Deals For Employers Good Environment , Diverse , Biggest Network.

Cons

Horrible Hours Not easy to get promoted..

Advice to Senior Management

Good Environment , Diverse , Biggest Network. Be A hard Worker

Pros

Good benefits package for employees and raises yearly. Good at recognizing employees who met or exceeded sales goals. Mostly friendly management staff.

Cons

Forced to peddle "warranty packages" in order to meet monthly targets even to customers to whom they did not apply. Usually schedule everyone on holidays.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on making employees more knowledgeable about what they are selling. Allow more leniency for scheduling. Reward employees who show initiative to learn new things.

Pros

Circuit City was a very professionally run business. My checks were never late, my hours were rather consistent, and I could pretty much get time off anytime I want.

Cons

It was clear that there was a set way of doing things with little room for experimentation. It's probably the reason the company closed.

Advice to Senior Management

Had anyone been opening to listening to some advice, I would have told them to be more aggressive in price matching of online retailers and offer more services you can't find anywhere else.

Pros

Really great job while it lasted... Very happy and great opportunity to grow my skill set. management was awesome

Cons

training was a bit lacking, as was the overall vision and direction of the company. there seemed to be a bit of a disconnect between the district team and the stoer managers.

Advice to Senior Management

The ball has dropped, but in retrospect there needed to be more financial controls in place... I regret the demise of the company.

Pros

best reasons to work here, schedule, co workers, that is it.

Cons

upper management, lower management, middle management.

Advice to Senior Management

hire some professionals to do the managing not morons.

Pros

they had good benefits,hourly pay was ok,you worked alot of hours to get good pay. and you had weekends off

Cons

Too many long hours. Some days in peak season you will work up to 18 hours. management was very bad,they did not care about their employees.

Advice to Senior Management

there is no leadership at circiut city ,very bad management ,This is why circuit city went out of business two years ago.

Pros

Coworkers. Simple job to get paid for and nothing else. No future as you can see how the company folded.

Cons

MICROmanaging. When any big company is bored, they decide its best to nitpick everything from your salespitch to your nametag if you are wearing one or not. Pay never increasing due to " inside " review. Hours were horrid. Full time and you get schedule 22 hrs a week? Seriously? With funny schedules like 6-9 close. Who can live like that? Management being incompetent, not knowledgable on products. Just barking out orders from corporate. Policies always changing.

Advice to Senior Management

Hahaha this is funny since I actually left the company at the end of 2005 cause I knew it would go under eventually.

Pros

people i worked with were fun and nice
programs that incentivized sales - gave prizes for good store department performance

Cons

management was terrible
all male employees
had to promote certain products, weren't always worth it for the customer
pay, benefits

Advice to Senior Management

obviously management was terrible, company went under... people could have brains and actually do something other than walk around the store

Pros

Easy going crowd and great people to work with. Management knew what was going on and the structure of the operations was good.

Cons

It closed and I got laid off. Twice!

Advice to Senior Management

Managers need to reward the well performing sales staff with incentives.

Pros

Awesome people to work with, loved the ping pong table and x-box in the break room. generally a very good overall experince

Cons

Pushing product you didnt belive in. pushing software that the customer didnt need. pushing warrenties which didnt really help the customer with there most frequent problems

Advice to Senior Management

what is there to say. this company no longer exists. and advice i would have would fall on deaf ears.