RadioShack Reviews in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Area

Pros

Co-Workers are all great to be around. A lot of team work goes on to get through the day.
Work/life balance is good so long as your manage your time, very dependent on your boss.
Middle Management has a sincere interest in the business and try to keep moral up.

Cons

Senior Management is too close to the day to day activities which stifles people from actually feeling empowered and valued to the company. Decisions are made for you from upper management.
The overall moral is low since the big layoffs in 2006, the leadership team has done very little to create the fun atmosphere this place use to have, people just come to work and go home, very little pride in the company.

Advice to Senior Management

If you "need" a job, this place is OK, but don't expect to be able to come in and make a difference right away. I expect things will get better once the Senior management team turns over, which might be sooner than later.

Pros

Mutual appreciation by management and coworkers.

Cons

Employees transfer positions within the company often.

Pros

You could use and sell tech gadets.

Cons

Asked to hound and pester customers to buy everything in the store. Were pressured to sell everyone a cell phone. Asked to sell unnecessary service plans. Worked long hours and asked to do so much, for so little compensation. If you are told your main revenue is selling then why do you spend 75% cleaning, stocking and taking inventory.

Advice to Senior Management

Have a customer centered focus and don't try to shove every high revenue item down their throat.

Pros

The opportunity to work with and work for capable people in a challenging, fast-paced environment while maintaining work - life balance.

Cons

Below-average benefits package (no vacation for 1 year)
Below-average compensation
Lack of defined company strategy or mission
Poor communication across teams
Complicated, esoteric systems for execution

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to streamline processes while improving employee compensation. Once we define what RadioShack is and want to be to its consumer we will become meaningful in the CE marketplace.

Pros

- Good opportunity to try new things and build some skills, particularly if you have a good manager
- Great people to work with; lots of talent
- Some of the projects can be interesting
- Nice campus

Cons

- Benefits are poor; vacation is paltry for new hires and health benefits are few and far between
- Average to below-average pay
- Poor internal communication
- Always reorganizing; low stability
- Still far too few people to do all the work expected
- Constant change makes it hard for employees to keep up

Advice to Senior Management

Think beyond sales dollars and think about the people who work for RadioShack. While it's impossible to make everyone happy, there should be an effort to retain and develop the people who work so hard for the company.

Pros

half days off on fridays during summer time at corp office

Cons

management not the greatest to work for

Pros

Financial stable. Very good middle and lower management. Very strong field organization/store management

Cons

Operation driven. Poor communication of goal and objectives i.e., what are the goals for the company, division, category. Too much back room communication versus up front.

Advice to Senior Management

Open constructive communication. The work force has value and will work to prove it.

Julian's C-level management is a reflection of him.

Pros

Flexible schedule
Lot of learning
Good salary for someone living with parents
Good experience toward resume

Cons

Not a good training program
Store managers do not have life other than work and do not get a fair salary
We get forced to offer cell phones and service plans to the point of annoying customers
Senior management thinks of us as money making machines, not human beings
They want us to sell but product variety and availability is not enough
Services plans for many products is not worthy at all, and the way the program works is terrible

Advice to Senior Management

Change top management, change culture and change advertising agency.

Pros

It is a great first time sales job! You learn a lot. You have one-on-one experiences with customers. There are a variety of products which brings a variety of people and situations. It is a great gateway sales job.

Cons

The pay is not nearly enough for all the work that is expected of you (especially the commissions). Half the time our resources are not functioning properly. Stock replenishment never reflects what we really need. Training is very minimal, so employees are not all informed well. We are expected to sell accessories with items but most of the time we don't have appropriate accessories for each item. Some of the operations behind the scenes are not performed very efficiently. Prices are WAY too high. Fixtures come out of managers (small) budget. Not enough support from upper management. Overall the expectations are too high for what they pay.

Advice to Senior Management

Train your employees (DMs on down atleast) better. Make commissions/base pay better. HAVE PRODUCT AVAILABLE TO STORES IF YOU EXPECT THEM TO SELL IT.

Pros

Easy to get the days off you need, store management is usually pretty good at listening to what needs to happen with in the store, you get to learn about a whole lot of new tech and get to meet new people.

Cons

upper management doesn't listen at all. petty tasks are given to fill in down times. pay is what you make it and some people might not like that. POS systems are out dated. corp. focuses on what doesn't really matter than what actually matters.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on things that matter rather than metting petty goals and change marketing to be more appealing to various people. The Shack is not a very attractive name. and listen to people at store level. they know more about what's going on than you do.