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    Best Buy Salt Lake City Reviews

    Updated August 1, 2018
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    Salt Lake City, UT
    2.5
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    Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly
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    9 Ratings
    Top CEO 2018

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    1. "i have had no experience working with best buy. i hope to work there soon."

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      Current Employee - Best Buy Sales Associate in Salt Lake City, UT
      Current Employee - Best Buy Sales Associate in Salt Lake City, UT

      I have been working at Best Buy part-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      i think it would help me with people skills and give me a very good learning experience.

      Cons

      i will be a little leary at first but i will get the hang of it soon

      Advice to Management

      i will try my hardest to do the work you have selected for me.

    2. "Good but Childish"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Salt Lake City, UT
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Salt Lake City, UT
      Recommends
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Best Buy full-time

      Pros

      Good co-workers, with good wages and a good bonus structure.

      Cons

      Massive favoritism between sales flor and management, childish managers who play it like a high school going off popularity for consequences to favorites and those not favored. Most managers do not lead by example, and do not have adequate experience to actually teach you anything valuable to benefit you on the floor as they do not have product knowledge, all it is telling you how you're doing wrong and not doing 250% goals.

      Advice to Management

      No favoritism, grow up, require advanced product knowledge before putting someone in a leadership role.

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    3. "Favoritism"

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      Former Employee - Sony Expert in Salt Lake City, UT
      Former Employee - Sony Expert in Salt Lake City, UT
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Best Buy full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Discounts, accommodations.
      You get to work around the latest and greatest and that's fun. It hurts you can't afford any of it.

      Cons

      Management, life work balance, trainings are a joke, uniforms.
      Pay is awful unless your favorite or perform so well you can't be ignored.

      Advice to Management

      Hire and promote who is best for the position and company. Accept that you and those in management might be hurting the company and should leave.

    4. "Micromanaging in steroids"

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      Current Employee - Sales Representative in Salt Lake City, UT
      Current Employee - Sales Representative in Salt Lake City, UT
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Best Buy full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Discounts
      Get to see new products.

      Cons

      Those who they choose for management.
      Poor life work balance.

      Advice to Management

      Quit and let talented people lead Best Buy. If you want Best Buy to thrive instead of just stay afloat you will leave.

    5. "Best Buy Mobile Manager"

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      Former Employee - Best Buy Mobile Manager in Salt Lake City, UT
      Former Employee - Best Buy Mobile Manager in Salt Lake City, UT
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      Best Buy had a great discount, decent health benefits, 401k match up to 5%, and a lot of great leaders and employees.

      Cons

      Best Buy was pretty high levels of stress. I was in a high performing store however it gets exhausting to manage the amount of metrics they throw at you for every category imaginable. If felt though if you succeeded at one, district/corporate management wouldn't even stop to say thanks before they than switched focus to another category you could do better in.

      Advice to Management

      Simplify your reporting. I'll never forget the time as a mobile manager when I found out that upper management had reporting to show if I was utilizing reporting. Seriously? I would much rather you come in and talk to me, coach me, inspire me, than sit behind a desk and send me an email telling me I need to view a particular report more often.

    6. "Fun place to work but they seem to use a lot of favoritism"

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      Current Employee - Computer Sales Associate in Salt Lake City, UT
      Current Employee - Computer Sales Associate in Salt Lake City, UT
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Best Buy part-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Working at best buy during college was nice because they were flexible with my schedule and It was a fun work environment great discount

      Cons

      Expected us to follow a certain formula for sales and would write us up if we didn't. I understand it is a business but it made me feel like a robot and felt unnatural having to follow each step one by one to sell products.

      Advice to Management

      Do not rely on favoritism when choosing promotions and try to not get mad at people for not meeting goals rather they should help them.

    7. "worked for a student job"

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      Former Employee - Delivery Driver in Salt Lake City, UT
      Former Employee - Delivery Driver in Salt Lake City, UT
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      Pros

      flexible with school so that was chill

      Cons

      micro management, weird sophomoric politics.

      Advice to Management

      relax

    8. "It was a good experience, not great."

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      Former Employee - Customer Service Specialist in Salt Lake City, UT
      Former Employee - Customer Service Specialist in Salt Lake City, UT
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Best Buy full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Not super demanding, products mostly sell themselves.

      Cons

      Poorly compensated, very few perks.

    9. "Computers and tablets specialist"

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      Former Employee - Computer Sales Specialist in Salt Lake City, UT
      Former Employee - Computer Sales Specialist in Salt Lake City, UT
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Best Buy part-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Great employ discounts, and good people to work with.

      Cons

      Didn't work well with my schedule, a lot of busy work to keep up to date with new things coming out to sell

      Advice to Management

      Work better with scheduling your employees and be mindful when they are going to school and working other jobs

    10. "Great Stores, But things change to fast."

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      Current Employee - Best Buy Mobile Lead in Salt Lake City, UT
      Current Employee - Best Buy Mobile Lead in Salt Lake City, UT
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Best Buy full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      great if you want to work with people
      great way to stay up to date on technology

      Cons

      management can be pushy with out commissioned sells
      corporate and no real idea how in-store flow works

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