Game Stop Employee Reviews for Store Manager

"Responsible for training staff, generating profit, and maintaining customer service within state laws and policies."

What don't you like about working at Game Stop?

"Store manager is the highest you will go unless you are friends with your supervisor."

"Old EB Employee"

What do you like about working at Game Stop?

"ability to influence company direction"

What don't you like about working at Game Stop?

"weakness in long term strategy positioning"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"look to diversify business"

"Virtually no autonomy, blanket policies not applicable to all locations due to drastic volume variances"

What do you like about working at Game Stop?

"Fun industry"

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

"if you show up on time and can spell your name they will hire you"

What don't you like about working at Game Stop?

"Inability to conform to policies due to variances in locations. Progression beyond Store Manager virtually impossible"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to unit level managers, be adaptable with policies on outlying stores"

"Great place to work, not so great to advance. They didn't treat their employee as a company assets."

What do you like about working at Game Stop?

"Coworker, atmoshpere"

What don't you like about working at Game Stop?

"difficult career advancement."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"to have a long career plan with them, at least 10+years to get up from Store manager position."

"VERY FUN !!!!!"

What do you like about working at Game Stop?

"I LOVE WORKING IN MANHATTAN AND I AM A VIDEO GURU SO THIS WAS VERY FUN FOR ME."

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

"BE FULL OF ENERGY"

What don't you like about working at Game Stop?

"THE DISTRICT I WORKED IN WAS VERY BAD WITH TURNOVER, THATS ONE OF THE REASONS I NLEFT I WENT THRU SEVEN DISTRICT MANAGERS WITHIN A ELEVEN MONTH PERIOD."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"MUSTT HAVE THE MIND SET OF COMPUTER GAMES AND BE VERY CUSTOMER SERVICE READY"

"GameStop is a great place to work but it is a hard place to make your career."

What do you like about working at Game Stop?

"I had the ability to talk about video games while at work."

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

"You need to be able to show the ability to recruit quality talent."

What do you like about working at Game Stop?

"helping customers and the gaming industry"

What don't you like about working at Game Stop?

"goals were sometimes out in left feild"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"listen to the store mgr. more"

"Great place to work but not all fun and games."

What do you like about working at Game Stop?

"I love video games and felt that I was a part of an industry that was changing entertainment. I enjoyed the challenge of running a store."

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

"Now that this is a serious company that is very focused on the bottom line as it should be. During my time there I interviewed many people who thought that the job consisted only of playing games and talking about games. It can be a fun place to work if you keep in mind that you are a sales person and manager first and gamer second."

What don't you like about working at Game Stop?

"Job became a series of threats about losing your job for not meeting goals that I considered unrealistic. The company expected growth in sales of about ten percent while opening many new stores, a lot of which competed with each other for the same customer base."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Try to manage by positive reinforcement a little more. Don't allow district manager to try to intimidate managers with termination on a regular basis."

"Avoid working here at all costs"

What do you like about working at Game Stop?

"Only the employee discount, which was very limited."

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

"Apply at other video game stores."

What don't you like about working at Game Stop?

"Poor direction and high expectation from management, racist and sexist environment, limited hours for staff, poor communication, deceitful business practices, unsuitable working conditions, very high turnover rate, unorganized inventory system, unfair business practices, dishonest manager behavior"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Become more involved with managers' individual concerns, monitor store policies and hiring practices, explore working conditions and manager behavior"