HMV Reviews

Current Employee – been working at HMV

Pros – -very friendly people
-discount (supplier cost, items become very cheap)
-flexible when asking for days off
-flexible around your availability
-managers become your friends

Cons – -lack of appreciation from managers
-favouritism
-can get very boring on most night shifts

Advice to Senior Management – Appreciate ALL your workers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at HMV

Pros – I get to know about all the latest news in music and movies and they let me be creative with my appearance good place to work and grow as an employee.

Cons – Sometimes the work is a bit dull and the customers can be difficult to deal with. Long shifts around Xmas time and Easter.

Advice to Senior Management – More training opportunities in store and bonuses for good employees. I would like to work my way up to the top so Id appreciate if there was the possibility to do so.

Current Employee – been working at HMV

Pros – Good Benefits
Good discounts
Opportunity for advancement
Up to date with music, movies & other entertainment
Get to sell great music to the masses

Cons – Long hours
Monthly set-ups of restocking/changing sale sections
Constant moving/price changing/re-merchandising of product
Endless promotions to memorize sale procedures for
Working Christmas Eve, New Years Eve, Boxing Day, all at unreasonable hours of the morning/night

Advice to Senior Management – I am a leader and it's hard work to try and keep up with all the bullcrap that is HMV. A leader has to be very much dedicated to this company and all the work that surrounds selling cds/dvd's and whatever else. It's nuts i tells ya.

Former Employee – worked at HMV

Pros – It's a comfortable pace, you get to work around a music minded environment, helping people find the newest Celine Dion album is ultra rewarding.

Cons – Minimum wage jobs suck. You are in a busy mall over the holidays earning only enough money to get yourself home on the bus and if lucky a meal while you are there.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep on doing what you do... taking advantage of consumers with your overpriced, outdated technology.

Former Employee – worked at HMV

Pros – Support in business training schemes
casual dress
Several points of contact for support
Team atmosphere as departments run side by side.

Cons – none substantial enough to list

Advice to Senior Management – Allow greater creative input from employees at all levels regarding decisions, by offering a way to access current projects and send input electronically.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at HMV

Pros – Great atmosphere as well as great people. Good working environment, OK staff discounts. Working in London makes it quite a social hub too.

Cons – Some bad management at times, not enough staff discount, can't really say much more, there's no more negatives that I can think of.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to staff more. Communication within the group should be a hell of a lot more transport, we should also have more head office meetings.

Current Employee – been working at HMV

Pros – Working with such a fun & exciting product, you would think makes an exciting environment to work right? Well, no. Not when its His masters voice. Only HMV could turn the stocking of CD's, DVD's & Games into such a laborious mire of tedium.

Cons – The demands placed on you will burn you out. HMV has a corporate environment that frankly makes the third reich seem relaxed. Recent years have not been kind, with most savvy employees heading toward the exit door. All that are left are a bunch of clueless, overpromoted, beaurocratic, soulless individuals more interested in their own careers than the company. An interest in music, film & games is paid occasional lip service, but to be honest, it feels hollow & contrivied. Besides, you'll spend most of your day blindly ticking boxes anyway.

Advice to Senior Management – .

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend