Get paid to nerd out over electronics, but not enough. - Sales Representative Best Buy Employee Review

3.0
6 Jun 2023
Recommend
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Pros

If you get a good Store Manager (which I did) you'll enjoy your team, the culture, your days, and likely the people you work with. The job can be fun, and easy, and you don't take baggage home with you. I made friends for life while working here. Discounts are pretty good on the everyday kind of things. Non-commission environment means you're not incentivized to be greasy when selling. Greasy pizza and mall food is abundant if that's your thing.

Cons

Expected to be greasy when selling, and to hustle like you stand to benefit at all from doing so. Sales competitions are constant, when you win, you get 4 dollars worth of greasy pizza. The seemingly huge wage gap between store managers and the standard floor worker means that they have a bit of a churn-and-burn approach to employment unless they get hired in some sr. role. The absolute bottom end of pay scale on some national policy means that in a place like Kelowna where 45k a year is the poverty line, you work there until you can't afford to work there anymore. A year can go by with no hope of advancement because those positions are held for a long time You're expected to celebrate the $150 dollars extra you'll make after tax from the 10 cents per hour raise you get.

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5.0
1 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great General Manager, that’s about it.

Cons

All of the leadership besides the GM were unprofessional. They couldn’t help it but most were incompetent.

3.0
30 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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