Fry's Electronics Reviews

Pros

If you like technology, have good abililty to help hundreds of people a week and want to learn you can do very well there.

Cons

Can be very competitive with office politics too important.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the local managers better. They are there 40 + hours per week and often times can give better ideas to make sales happen.

Pros

The best reasons to work at Fry's Electronics, is the employees: That are none management! With most you can relate to and look towards for help when you need them!

Cons

The downsides, about Fry's Electronics. The management is bad! For Merchandisers to have the least pay, and most responsibilities is odd! After working for Fry's for almost 2 years, the management team ask for to much, to be none in one day: which cause stress on employees, other than to hire the right amount of people to get the job done!

Advice to Senior Management

Take the time, to listen to your employees, and see what kind of feedback they have to save before, making decisions on anything. Communication is the key to everything!

Pros

Received about 10 or so dollars for checking out $10,000 dollars worth of merchandise, easy to get a fair amount of money if busy.

Cons

Management is terrible, required sign up at least 2 people a week for credit cards when no one wants one, disciplined if requirement is not met. Required to pick up after other lazy employees who are constantly being replaced because of the terrible management.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop yelling at your employees and do some work yourself, cards are a terrible requirement, understand that people don't want cards no matter what. Stop under staffing on obviously busy days.

Pros

You have the potential to make a lot of money, upwards of a thousand bucks a week. You also learn a lot about sales and how to sell.

Cons

Its very stressful and sometimes you make no money at all since its commission only. You have to hustle to survive in this company as a sales person. The co-workers are very slick. They will steal your sale when you are not looking.

Advice to Senior Management

They should offer more training programs to help people ease into sales. There is absolutely no training what so ever in how to write up quotes. The supervisors are try to be helpful but they have too much stuff on their plates and the co-workers do not help at all. I really cant blame them because they do not get payed for that.

Pros

Flexible work hours for part-time employees

Cons

Cocky managers/Supervisors
Sales People have to make certain amount of Gross Profit in a day.
Pressure from management to up sell the items to the customers

Advice to Senior Management

Don't pressure your Sales people to sell unnecessary items to the customers who don't need the items

Pros

Deferred Compensation for retirement after full term

Cons

No holidays with the family

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your associates Feedback

Pros

There is a no-nonsense atmosphere which is helpful in making sure people know their responsibilities and how they should conduct themselves.

Cons

Kind of a stale place to work at and I wouldn't consider it somewhere I'd like to spend a large amount of my time.

Advice to Senior Management

If they could somehow change the feel of the place, maybe through a complete remodel, I might have enjoyed my time there a bit more.

Pros

An electronics wonderland with a great diversity of people.

Cons

Management undercutting employees to profit for itself.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in techology to make sales pricematching more efficient. If they could go paperless and slipstream quotes via PDA scanners, TONs of money would be saved in paper alone, not to mention customer support efficiency.

Pros

The pay consists of min wage and commission
Time off
Break periods- 30min-1hr lunches
The PEOPLE
No company credit cards to deal with

Cons

The management is horrible. These people can be rude and demeaning. When the department doesnt do their job, it is the CSA's job to do.

Advice to Senior Management

One of your mottos is "I dont know, let's find out" well please find a way to fix the store. Listen to what everyone has to say and build upon that.

Pros

The pay was very good if you are good at your job, but its commission only.,

Cons

Immoral business practices, unreasonable holiday hours, unreasonable demands (making commission only salesman do non commission work), incompetent management.

Advice to Senior Management

Become a corporation. Everybody does whatever they want because it is a privately owned company.