Bed Bath & Beyond Employee Reviews for Department Manager

What do you like about working at Bed Bath & Beyond?

"I like the merchandising challenges, helping customers with legitimate questions, and the employee discount."

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

"Don't bother. Brick-and-mortar retail is a suffering industry. No one deserves the abuse from customers you will get if you start here."

What don't you like about working at Bed Bath & Beyond?

"Using old technology that a lot of customers ridicule. Not enough labor hours to appropriately cover shifts. Lots of talk about training and expertise, backed up by weak and ineffective instruction and little followup. And most of all, the utter slavery to the fallacy that the customer is always right."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Increase spending on labor, and invest in upgrading the stores' inventory systems and infrastructure."

"It was a very nice place to work."

What do you like about working at Bed Bath & Beyond?

"I liked the benefits."

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

"Ask questions about their expectations for you."

What don't you like about working at Bed Bath & Beyond?

"The long hours sucked."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"A better training program would be helpful."

"Thank you for a place to let people know not to work for Bed Bath and Beyond."

What do you like about working at Bed Bath & Beyond?

"I liked learning how to provide great customer service."

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

"Money is one thing but look for another job to fulfill yourself in your retail career."

What don't you like about working at Bed Bath & Beyond?

"Everything else. Lack of respect, do not address human resource issues, lack of direction."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Communication is the key to a great company."

"I always said, if you can't say anything nice, say nothing at all."

What do you like about working at Bed Bath & Beyond?

"Merchandising freedom."

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

"Get it in writing."

What don't you like about working at Bed Bath & Beyond?

"During the recruitment process, lot of promises made but they did not deliver on them."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't promise what you can't deliver."

"This was a good place to work with great people."

What do you like about working at Bed Bath & Beyond?

"I like the freedom, the people, and the products are the best!"

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

"Go for it!"

What don't you like about working at Bed Bath & Beyond?

"The salary is low and the benefits are lacking."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The company needs more diversity."

"Experience."

What do you like about working at Bed Bath & Beyond?

"While working at Bed Bath & Beyond, I enjoyed working with my fellow teammates and being able to make my own decisions."

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

"It's a lot of hard work, but it pays off in the end."

What don't you like about working at Bed Bath & Beyond?

"I was there for 8 years so it wasn't really anything I didn't like about Bed Bath & Beyond. I was just there too long and I wanted something different that was actually challenging."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"No suggestions, great company!"

"Great."

What do you like about working at Bed Bath & Beyond?

"I like that Bed Bath and Beyond is close to home with good pay and nice associates."

What don't you like about working at Bed Bath & Beyond?

"Schedule."

""Chinese Overtime""

What do you like about working at Bed Bath & Beyond?

"I like the product knowledge."

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

"55+ hours a week."

What don't you like about working at Bed Bath & Beyond?

"I dislike the abusive managers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to employee complaints!"