Barnes & Noble Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Good place to work to get some customer service experience."

What do you like about working at Barnes & Noble?

"The books, gaining relationships."

"You will feel at home."

"Working in a tiny cubicle is hard on the mind and body."

"If you are willing to relocate to advance your career, Barnes & Noble is a good retail company."

What do you like about working at Barnes & Noble?

"The company atmosphere is amazing. There are dozens of people at each location that are passionate about their products and services. The clientele is very laid back and the company sales strategies reflect the same."

What don't you like about working at Barnes & Noble?

"The only way to make decent money within the company is to be a store manager."

What do you like about working at Barnes & Noble?

"Discounts, working with the public, clientele, advancing my learning every day, new merchandise every day, co-workers intelligent."

What don't you like about working at Barnes & Noble?

"Varying schedules and late nights, pay is low scale, loss prevention is on my shoulders."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more like me. Open to suggestion, welcoming and enthusiastic."

"Good company to start off with."

What do you like about working at Barnes & Noble?

"Creative, always different every day."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Stable company with good benefits."

What don't you like about working at Barnes & Noble?

"Hours/days off change weekly."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Level out schedules."

"It has it's ups and downs."

What do you like about working at Barnes & Noble?

"I love to read, and it was a pleasure being around all the literature that you could imagine. I loved being able to interact with different types of people every day. Working in Los Angeles gave me the opportunity to meet so many celebrated authors and celebrities, which was a blessing as well. It was a wonderful 5 years with the company."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Know your literature! Have a passion for people, a lot of patience and understanding."

What don't you like about working at Barnes & Noble?

"I did not always enjoy the retail lifestyle, which was sometimes difficult to deal with. Working on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years every year was somewhat disheartening, as I never got to spend it with my family. After 5 years of working at a company, the most vacation time I had was 2 weeks a year, which was difficult as well."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management was different at each store. I had a wonderful store manager in Texas. He was the epitome of what a store manager should be. He was a hard worker, passionate, and he made work fun. That needs to be present in every store manager, because it can trickle down to the rest of the management team, and in turn, the employees."

"Average specialized retail working environment."

"I was the assistant purchasing manager for all B&N, B. Dalton, Babbages, Software Etc. stores in the NE."

What do you like about working at Barnes & Noble?

"I love books...and I was able to get at least 50-75 books a week. I read consistently, also the woman I was directly under taught me a world of professionalism."

What do you like about working at Barnes & Noble?

"The wide variety of calls that came in gave me a great deal of experience in all manner of IT and network issues."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Expect a high work load involving a very wide variety of subjects. Be sure to mention good people skills and the ability to handle irate people correctly and politely."

What don't you like about working at Barnes & Noble?

"There was no room for growth ."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Start listening more to the lower management and the employees as to how to help the department do more promotions from within the department."

"I enjoyed working at Barnes and Noble. I developed excellent management experience while there."

"When I was there, most of the management were not supportive of their staff."

What do you like about working at Barnes & Noble?

"The people at my level."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure management has straightened out there before interviewing."

What don't you like about working at Barnes & Noble?

"Management's lack of faith in their employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Support and encourage your technical staff. Don't view them as threats to your job."

"Barnes & Noble is a good place to work if you are interested in working retail and have a passion for books."

"Great company, good growth, competitve salaries. Fun place to be."

What do you like about working at Barnes & Noble?

"Working with the people, and the product."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You need to be hardworking and hungry to grow!"

What don't you like about working at Barnes & Noble?

"Late hours (midnight) and early openings (7 am). Turnaround shifts were tough."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"How merchandise was displayed or process improvement for how you shelve books and your merchandise."

"A great amount of responsibility coupled with an environment that I flourished in made this an overall positive experience for me."