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3.8
Average Rating
(based on 723 Best Buy Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
3.7
Growth Opportunities
3.2
People You Work With
4.4
Person You Work For
4.1
Rewards You Receive
3.4
Support You Get
3.8
Way You Work
4.0
Work Setting
4.0
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"Great place for kids out of high school to get a grasp of work life and technology."
Posted 15 years ago in Fort Collins, CO
Sales Associate

What do you like about working at Best Buy?

"Ability to train constantly and learn new skills. Developed many good sales skills as well."

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

"Make sure you have another job to cover your bills while only getting PT work."

What don't you like about working at Best Buy?

"It's very hard to get full time status and the pay is less than $10/hr."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would bring back commissioned sales on non-product sales, i.e., service plans, etc."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
General Manager

What do you like about working at Best Buy?

"Allows me to be at my best while helping coach and train employees."

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

"Focus on your ability to inspire, coach, and train employees."

What don't you like about working at Best Buy?

"The changes and the culture that is around right now, due to poor performance as a company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Find a way to create a consistent message and believe in it."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Portable Electronics Sales Specialist

What do you like about working at Best Buy?

"The paycheck was good... also the discount was very high. I also like electronics."

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

"Be as enthusiastic about selling as possible. Talk about how much you love Best Buy and their mission."

What don't you like about working at Best Buy?

"It was too competitive, I hate selling people things, and the atmosphere was fake."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I wouldn't run a corporation. Ever. And I wouldn't force people to wear a uniform."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 1 / 5
Sales Associate

"Fun."

What do you like about working at Best Buy?

"There were a lot of fun new toys to play with working in the home theater dept."

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

"Just be yourself, it's a very laid back environment with little pressure for sales."

What don't you like about working at Best Buy?

"There really wasn't anything I didn't like about the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop pushing the service plans so hard, people know what they are by now."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Field Service Manager

What do you like about working at Best Buy?

"people culture, organizational support, growth opportunities, leadership and passion for technology."

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

"Passion for technology and great people skills are the most important."

What don't you like about working at Best Buy?

"Managing the bottom line through managing numbers not employee development."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Happy employee and understanding of financial responsibility will help you manage the bottom line."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Deputy of Counter Intelligence

"I have worked with Best Buy for 10 years."

What do you like about working at Best Buy?

"The company has a great vision and desire to meet employee, customer, and investor needs. The people I work with are like family."

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

"Make sure to do your research on any location one is applying for. This will go a long way in the interview process."

What don't you like about working at Best Buy?

"Sometimes the people do not uphold the vision of the company in the proper way or lose site of what is truly important."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Chief Information Architect

What do you like about working at Best Buy?

"I love the satisfaction of fixing problems for our clients, and the knowledge I gain from my experience."

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

"Show them what you know, and how well you can do your job."

What don't you like about working at Best Buy?

"I don't receive enough hours or benefits. Also, there is little room for advancement."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Personally, I have no complaints about the Management. Everyone is great to work with!"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Sales Associate

"It was very enjoyable and I have learned a lot."

What do you like about working at Best Buy?

"Constant of learning new things. Improvement of communication skills by helping the customers."

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

"Be on time, be honest, and be yourself. They will hire you for who you are."

What don't you like about working at Best Buy?

"I have not found one thing I do not like about Best Buy."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Best Buy Employee
Company Culture 4 / 5
Database Administrator

What do you like about working at Best Buy?

"The environment is pretty good, most of co-workers are nice."

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

"I don't have any tip. There are not many challenging projects."

What don't you like about working at Best Buy?

"Not caring about employee career growth. There is no strong communication. More projects outsource to consultants."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Build a better communication line and care more about staff."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
General Manager

What do you like about working at Best Buy?

"Total control of outcomes. P&L control of bottom line performance."

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

"Be yourself, enjoy the good people you work with. Do what is needed."

What don't you like about working at Best Buy?

"Time away from family. Working 27 hours straight because lack of key holders."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide more leadership in stores. More training dollars to provide great service."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Best Buy Employee
Work Setting 5 / 5 Company Culture 5 / 5
Inventory Clerk

"I have always loved to work at Best Buy."

What do you like about working at Best Buy?

"People, environment, experience, knowledge, recognition and the way management takes care of you."

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

"Do your job and enjoy it because it's a lot of fun."

What don't you like about working at Best Buy?

"Opportunity to further my career goals and become the professional person."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Appriciate all your employees and lead by example and that everyone should be respected."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Chief Information Architect

"At the forefront of technology wide variety of tasks everyday was something new."

What do you like about working at Best Buy?

"Being able to go to a job where you hung out with friends was great. The experience you gain in a store that does that much volume in computer support helps a technician understand the relationship between client and technician. Most importantly it's a great job to have while you get your bearings in the computer science field."

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

"Be flexible, one day you could be installing a screen on an imac, the next you could be performing data entry or resetting account permissions."

What don't you like about working at Best Buy?

"Being a big fish in a little pool, there was no room for advancement other than part time to full time."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"When a technician needs tools they need them. When a sales representative makes promises the technicians can't fulfill because the store lacks tools, it make for a bad experience for everyone."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Mobile Electronics Technician

What do you like about working at Best Buy?

"The brand name was very established in the global arena, and working for a name that everyone recognizes is always comforting."

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

"Lower level associates should pursue the job as part time only."

What don't you like about working at Best Buy?

"Upper level management didn't realize the potential that retail level associates possessed, and there was no room for progression of lower level employees, something similar to a glass ceiling effect."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"It is more efficient to place higher value on your employees, then to continually cut and replace them, due to the training involved of new employees."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5

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Is Best Buy a good company to work for?

Best Buy has an overall rating of 3.8 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 723 Best Buy Review Ratings left anonymously by Best Buy employees, which is 3% lower than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 93% of employees would recommend working at Best Buy.

Does Best Buy pay their employees well?

Best Buy employees earn $30,000 annually on average, or $14 per hour, which is 55% lower than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 149 Best Buy employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find Best Buy Salaries by Job Title.

How satisfied are employees working at Best Buy?

93% of employees would recommend working at Best Buy with the overall rating of 3.8 out of 5. Employees also rated Best Buy 3.7 out of 5 for Company Culture, 3.4 for Rewards You Receive, 3.2 for Growth Opportunities and 3.8 for support you get.

What is the highest paying job at Best Buy?

According to our data, the highest paying job at Best Buy is a Senior Sales Consultant at $57,408,000 annually. Browse Best Buy Salaries by Job Profile.

What is the lowest paying job at Best Buy?

According to our data, the lowest paying job at Best Buy is a Media Sales Representative at $16,000 annually. Browse Best Buy Salaries by Job Profile.

What are the pros and cons of working at Best Buy?

According to reviews on CareerBliss, employees commonly rated the pros of working at Best Buy to be Company Culture, Growth Opportunities, People You Work With and Person You Work For, and no cons.

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