Lots of opportunity amid the chaos - Anonymous employee Best Buy Employee Review

2.0
29 Oct 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Opportunity to switch disciplines or functions, flexible work schedules, very nice people, beautiful corporate campus make it a place with very good work culture, its a fun place to work. In many jobs, you have considerable freedom to control your own performance and career destiny.

Cons

Because the general feeling is "anyone can do anything" you'll experience a lot of the Peter Principal where individuals have reached the limits of their capability. A general lack of strong intellectual thinkers; being "too smart" is sometimes a detriment in an environment where many senior leaders came up from the stores with limited outside experience and sometimes limited education. Poor performers don't get fired because company wants everyone to feel like family and there are often unclear objectives or evaluations are based more on interpersonal feelings and personality than true objectives and accomplishments

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Pros

Travel to different store locations. On travel that requires a hotel meals are covered up to $80 a day. Mileage is reimbursed outside of 20miles from home and back.

Cons

You're required to have a car and it puts alot of strain on it and your body. You could be gone from home anywhere from a few days to a few months. Changes are very last minute.

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