Best Buy Employee - Department Senior Best Buy Employee Review

3.0
Jan 2, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

This is a good job for someone who is still young and is or recent graduate from college/university. You get a a chance to be an assisstant supervisor or a department and you can develop skills in management especially when it comes to team building. The general managers that I had worked with were great managers, it was a shame that the middle management were not competent enough to follow their examples.

Cons

The middle management is under educated/trained when it comes to management in general. They lack the leadership skills and operate on a "by any means necessary" attitude. Training is very minimal and there is a lack of mentorship from middle management, it become obvious that each assistant manager function is the only thing they care about because it ties into their bonuses. Middle management do play favourites when it comes to floor employees.

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A lot of PTO and good benefits

Cons

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Pros

No Need to sell or deal with customers (Much) Constantly moving so you always have a task to do Management leaves you to your own devices Almost all warehouse employees have a set of headphone

Cons

Everyone (Cust & employees) Expect an encyclopedic knowledge on where every single item is. Management seems to think we can lift a 85" tv, pull a washer off the top shelf, stock gaming shelves, and handle store pick up at the same moment. Customers think we don't want to help them when we call someone else to help with sales There's almost too much to do and even though we may have 1-3 employees working at a time, 1 is at the door, 1 is behind store pick up, which leaves 1 employee to handle new orders, deliveries, and down stocking.

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