Micro Center Reviews

Pros

Learn so much about tech.
Great Staff
Great Benefits
Great schedule flexibility

Pros

If you are a self-starter and like a leadership team that excels in balancing hands-on eoungh to equip you (without doing it for you), and hands-off enough to let you stand on your own two feet (even though you may stumble a few times in the process), then you should consider throwing your hat in with them. Long term earning potential is high, and they will invest in your development. The training through Focus 3 and the Microcenter models are the most human you will find in the retail world. I do not say that lightly.

While I would add a few different spices to their training mix, they are building on solid ground. While I can't speak for every Microcenter, I will advocate that working for the Denver store will grow you and grow you hard if you're willing to lean in and step up.

The management crew at this store truly invest in your growth. You are supported and you have to step into your own voice. Learning how to self-advocate will be rewarded. If you accept the status quo, you will feel lost.

I loved that my superiors *invited* me to step up. They gave me the opportunity to observe my surroundings, create a solution, and then help when I asked for specific tools. If they couldn't provide the specific tools, they offered for insight from their experience. You cannot be a parrot and last here. You will face your own skills of adaptability and that is one of the best gifts someone can give you.

Some of my favorite moments were one-on-one conversations with our General Manager, District Manager, and the Vice President of Sales--and those happened more often than you might think. All of them made time for me when I requested it. And all of them connected with me. None of them ever blew me off or gave an air of "I have better things to do." I still want to learn to do that better.

Advice to Management

If you want to get to the next step of understanding store, company, and cultural dynamics, I would advise incorporating understanding of Family Systems Theory (Dr. Murray Bowen), vulnerability/intimacy concepts from Dr. Harriet Lerner and Dr. Brené Brown, and body-up awareness modalities (Dr. Peter Levine and Dr. Daniel Siegel).

If you build these concepts into your current model--and they will all fit seamlessly because of what you already do--I would be willing to bet that you'd reduce turnover, increase employee satisfaction, and deepen your connection and impact with your customers.

Pros

Great Team and Management, Good Benefit

Pros

Great people to work with, relevant technology and personal interest, and a natural ability to do well.

Pros

Handled newest technology. Met some good co-workers and some good customers.
On a good day, was actually pretty enjoyable for being retail store work.

Insurance was good at least last I knew.

If you don't mind a shifting schedule it can be a pro as its retail, you know you gotta work weekends here and there. This does give you time to get things during the work week that are normally closed on weekends. This I did enjoy to a degree.

Advice to Management

Treat employee's like they are human and have a life and maybe even a family.

If you don't want to pay people worth their time, just say so. Don't have bonus goals so out of reach.

Stop with games like scratch off cards for selling warranties to see if your family gets to eat or not.

Even as a tech it was sad to see official sales people pushed to point of having to sticker items with
their name on products to get credit for a sale. Watching them have to be sneaky about it and tag things
randomly hoping a person would just grab it and buy it while still getting the credit just so they
can maybe get a few extra dollars to make bills, was very sad.

A lot of your employee's are in debt, broke, and down right miserable and have been working their for over a decade. Instead of brow beating, give them something to be proud of.

Pros

Decent benefits good people to work with

Advice to Management

raise pay

Pros

I had the pleasure and the experience of working with some of the coolest people as well as a subordinate to some of the best managers in the retail industry thanks to the General Manager Saheed Adewole. He had such a wonderful vision as to how he wanted the organization to grow and ensured his concepts and ideas were inline with the gear of the company which kept me motivated to perform at my best. I was only there for roughly a year but I have learnt so much and Im extremely happy to have been a part of such an entity. The pay was not too bad and the company had a very stable and organized structure.The work hours were flexible and management tried their best to facilitate whatever challenges you may face in your work schedule. You were also rewarded if you performed exceptionally within your area.

Advice to Management

Remain consistent in delivering excellent management and leadership skills.

Pros

1. Greatly rewarded for hard work (commission pay)
2. Every day is an opportunity to help people
3. Flexible work schedule
4. Great place to work for anyone with people skills and an interest in sales and/or computers
5. Employee discount incredible on non-big ticket items
6. Managers work with you for time scheduling!

Advice to Management

Keep the working environment just as it is, it was a pleasure working alongside my co- workers at Micro Center!

Pros

Co-Workers
Benefits (Kinda)
Employee Discount (Kinda)
Location at the time was close to my living area

Advice to Management

Invest in your employees.
Stop making salesmen who make less than 5 dollars an hour do warehouses job when warehouse gets paid twice that
Hire more warehouse workers so the job can actually get done
Allow your salesmen to actually get commission and stop taking it away from them by constantly changing the structure

Pros

nice people and nice environment