Working at Best Buy?

I've learned VIA working in a few different stores, and under a few different leaders, that it's really dependant on your leadership team when it comes to Best Buy.

I will say this though, the company, as a whole, really cares for it's employees. It's worth giving it a shot.

In the end let’s be honest. Retail is retail. Work holidays. Angry clients. It depends on a lot of factors if you’ll find it better. I’ve worked for Best Buy just short of 10 years now. I left the company after 4 years for “greener pastures”. That lasted 3 months. Best Buy is a great company to work for. I’ve met people all over the country, made some good friends along the way and learned a lot. I can say it does 100% matter who you work for. I had transferred stores shortly before I left the company. Needless to say, it played a huge role in the reasoning behind my departure.

Been here just about 7 years, don’t plan on ever leaving. Absolute best company I’ve ever worked for, and if you go FT the benefits are amazing.

Retail hell is still retail hell no matter which retail

If you have an interest in electronics or games the coworkers you have a lot of them will become your friends but the work and environment, retail is retail

We just hired someone on from there that used to do tech support for office max. Jesus christ you guys deal with a lot of shit we don't have to. Apply already.

I used to work at Office Depot through high school in their Tech Depot and “zone 1” section for electronics and it started out nice because of the people there but turnover was high and the newer people weren’t all that great or nice and management changed for the worse and then the merger mess.

In college, I started working at Best Buy in computing/digital imaging and then later Geek Squad and it has been a blast so far because most of my coworkers and management are pleasant or easy to talk to. Some departments even hang out outside of work or have group chats for video games and stuff. I’ve heard of other stores within the company that are not as pleasant. While Best Buy has a lot more metrics/goals than Office Depot (well a few years ago anyway), the people at each individual location are really what makes the experience.

thank you everyone, yeah i understand that retail is retail but i think i might give it a try. cant be worse... hopefully

Hourly great. Management great, if the store performs. GM turn over is extremely high. Left their a few years back and out of 20 or stores in the Market I think 2 to 3 are still there.

best buy is awesome, discount alone is enough incentive

I absolutely love this place. Great pay, great room for advancement, great discount, and great people! I’d recommend it to anyone

Who you work with is a huge thing. I previously worked for bestbuy for about 3 years and I absolutely hated a majoroty of my coworkers, there was a lot of drama, a lot of shafe, and for some time we even had employees working together to steal. Discount is nice but don't overuse it, having worked with corporate there are rules in the fine line and the most common thing that's happened is employees buying a full kitchen package with geek squad on everything and then later wondering why there's a lot of money missing from their check. Please read the fine print about discount. If you're just buying cables here and there and one item occasionally you're fine, but don't bundle it all together. I understood how the business worked, I finished my schooling and got out, i will never work for bestbuy again. Find a solid team and decide where you want to be 10 years from now and dedicate your time towards that goal.

Give it a shot