Working at Buy.com in Aliso Viejo, CA: 10 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Aliso Viejo, CA Area
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On average, employees in Aliso Viejo, CA at Buy.com give their company a 1.8 rating out of 5.0 based on 10, whereas overall Average Rating of Buy.com is 3.3 out of 5.0 based on 17 Buy.com Review Ratings. The happiest Buy.com employees in Aliso Viejo, CA are Marketing Analysts submitting an average rating of 3.8 and Risk Investigators with a rating of 3.6.
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Working at Buy.com in Aliso Viejo, CA: 10 Employee Reviews
What do you like about working at Buy.com?
"Good relationship with coworkers. And We had free lunch. That's it."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Nothing. It's just like any other places. So no advice is needed."
What don't you like about working at Buy.com?
"They took away the free lunch. And company is not profitable."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Replace people not working hard. And replace developers with younger group."
"Good and bad."
What do you like about working at Buy.com?
"Good co-worker relationship plus enterprise level of tools to use."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Good place to learn corporate experience but not for long term."
What don't you like about working at Buy.com?
"Business does not have good leadership and dev teach and sys admin team are too reactive."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Get rid of underperforming people on both business side and IT side."
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What do you like about working at Buy.com?
"The bonding between employees were very good. Besides that, nothing much."
What do you like about working at Buy.com?
"I worked closely with the CTO Rob Brock who was always looking for new technologies and approaches to improve the site. As his chief architect, I had a great deal of freedom to build new technologies and approaches for each country I rolled out. I architected the Canada, UK, France, Germany, and Australia sites and with eac site I added new features that were rolled back to previous countries, including the US. I was an hourly contractor and the company gave me cash and stock bonuses which is rare for a contractor."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"After 10 years I have no idea who is still there or what the culture is."
What don't you like about working at Buy.com?
"There was a great deal of conflict between the CIO and CTO and between upper managers for each division (i.e., Computers, Books, music, etc). Very little cooperation between managers who were more interested in empire building."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"It has been 10 years and I am sure things have changed there. I have no suggestions."
"Fun crowd, little advancement and underpaid - it's a lifestyle company"
What do you like about working at Buy.com?
"Young fun crowd"
What don't you like about working at Buy.com?
"low pay, little recognition, poor management, departmental conflicts"
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Its a small company by headcount, and departments which should be very intertwined are completely separated."
"I worked there 8 years ago. Might be different now."
What do you like about working at Buy.com?
"I learned a lot of technical skills."
What don't you like about working at Buy.com?
"At the time, we worked too much. 70 hours per week."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Nothing for the management now."
"This was a great company to work for and a priviledge"
What do you like about working at Buy.com?
"While it was hard work, this is what I enjoy. Long hours were rewarded by seeing your work successful with the consumers"
What don't you like about working at Buy.com?
"There was nothing I did not like"
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