Great place for the right person - Analyst Best Buy Employee Review

4.0
3 Apr 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The environment fosters great ideas and wonderful collaboration. Many of the people working here are leaders in their professions and it shows. It's a place where talent and strenghts are recognized and encouraged and I would heartily recommend it as a place to come for long-term employement. The family friendly workload is offset by a really fast paced work environment that gets a lot done in a short period of time. You will have impact on a national, if not worldwide scale and your work will impact thousands of people, not only employees, but customers of all types. If you can put up with the pace and youthful atmosphere, it's a great place.

Cons

As with any large company, many of the health, wellness, and wealth benefits are at best, average. There is nothing special about the benefits, witht the exception of the Results Oriented Work Environment concept, which is exceptional. While the pace is one of the best reasons to work for Best Buy, it also has a downside in that it fosters sometimes sloppy or poorly documented SOP and lends projects a aura of the 'flavor of the month' with little credibilty. And working witht he outsourced IT and HR departments is always a challenge, that is often difficult, and sometimes impossible, to overcome.

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Pros

No Need to sell or deal with customers (Much) Constantly moving so you always have a task to do Management leaves you to your own devices Almost all warehouse employees have a set of headphone

Cons

Everyone (Cust & employees) Expect an encyclopedic knowledge on where every single item is. Management seems to think we can lift a 85" tv, pull a washer off the top shelf, stock gaming shelves, and handle store pick up at the same moment. Customers think we don't want to help them when we call someone else to help with sales There's almost too much to do and even though we may have 1-3 employees working at a time, 1 is at the door, 1 is behind store pick up, which leaves 1 employee to handle new orders, deliveries, and down stocking.

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