Best Buy Reviews

Rating Score3.9 46 reviews
  • 5 22%
  • 4 54%
  • 3 17%
  • 2 7%
  • 1 0%

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  • 3.3 Career Growth
  • 4.3 Work - Life Balance
  • 3.1 Compensation / Benefits
  • 3.8 Company Culture
  • 3.5 Management
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Rating Score2.0
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5Work - Life Balance
3Compensation / Benefits
4Company Culture
1Management

“Heavy pro's mixed with heavy con's. Be advised. (For BBY Health - BBY Retail is completely different)”

Verified User Current Employee · Y***** · UX Designer IV - Apr 5, 2022

Pros- As long as you know how to set boundaries, the work life balance is impeccable.
- I've been here for almost three years and the overal product/design process in improving
- The pay is average
- (Most) of the team(s) are wonderful. 95% solid people who care, who treat each other well
- Sometimes fulfilling work, as it's Best Buy Health
- Ambiguity begets available growth, depending on how strong of a designer/communicator you are

Cons- The 5% of OM's/PM's/leadership that are bad make up for 90% of your problems
- Leadership would prefer to keep their head in the sand, then get to work fixing big problems
- The product/design process is terrible, and even if it's getting incrementally better it's a top down issue so good luck improving it.
- No design manager support. 75% of my time i have been without a manager
- Little growth oppertunities, unless you finagle your own path.
- Pay is average
- The design works lacks value, lacks testing, lacks research support, lacks iterations and is waterfall masquerading as agile.

Rating Score4.0
2Career Growth
4Work - Life Balance
3Compensation / Benefits
4Company Culture
3Management

“Good company with great work/life balance”

Verified User Current Employee · E***** · Project Manager - Apr 23, 2022

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Rating Score3.0
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“Amazing work life balance, but very slow paced.”

Verified User Current Employee · f********* · Machine Learning Scientist - Apr 19, 2022

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Rating Score4.0
4Career Growth
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“Great work life balance”

Verified User Current Employee · b****** · Financial Accounting Analyst - Apr 4, 2022

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Rating Score2.0
4Career Growth
1Work - Life Balance
1Compensation / Benefits
1Company Culture
1Management

“Good until new CEO came in”

Verified User Current Employee · m******* · Repair Technician - Mar 23, 2022

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Rating Score4.0
3Career Growth
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3Compensation / Benefits
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“Great to become a better sales person”

Verified User Former Employee · S***** · Sales Associate - Mar 14, 2022

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Rating Score2.0
1Career Growth
5Work - Life Balance
1Compensation / Benefits
3Company Culture
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“WLB is good, not much else”

Verified User Current Employee · W***** · Staff Engineer - Mar 9, 2022

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Rating Score4.0
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“Great WLB and culture but pay is average at best”

Verified User Current Employee · m***** · Software Engineer II - Feb 23, 2022

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Rating Score4.0
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“Alright company to work for”

Verified User Current Employee · t***** · Security Analyst - Feb 17, 2022

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Rating Score5.0
3Career Growth
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“Great work life balance but not much in terms of career progression”

Verified User Current Employee · r********* · Web Developer - Feb 17, 2022

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Rating Score4.0
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“Decent place ”

Verified User Current Employee · D***** · Product Manager - Jan 28, 2022

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Rating Score3.0
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“Learn as much as you can, then leave!!!”

Verified User Former Employee · K***** · IT Analyst - Jan 28, 2022

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Rating Score5.0
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“Solid ”

Verified User Current Employee · X***** · Leadership Development - Jan 8, 2022

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Rating Score4.0
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“Great WLB, Solid culture, strong ecommerce, but not true tech”

Verified User Current Employee · p**** · Product Manager - Jan 7, 2022

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Rating Score4.0
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“Good benefits, pay could be better. ”

Verified User Current Employee · t***** · Analyst, Risk / Compliance - Dec 26, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
2Career Growth
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“Oh Best Buy”

Verified User Current Employee · b**** · Manager, Corporate Development - Dec 18, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
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“Average company overall. Good place to start engineering career. ”

Verified User Current Employee · n****** · Software Engineer - Dec 6, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
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“Some interesting options, generally good culture ”

Verified User Current Employee · D****** · Customer Support Supervisor - Oct 11, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
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“It's going downhill”

Verified User Current Employee · I***** · Advanced Repair Agent - Oct 10, 2021

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Rating Score5.0
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“Great overall culture and management. Comp is average and depends on bonus mostly”

Verified User Current Employee · i**** · IT Security Analyst - Sep 19, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
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“Pre-covid was a much better place to work ”

Verified User Current Employee · N***** · Portfolio Manager I - Sep 17, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
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“Work life balance is good”

Verified User Current Employee · c***** · Data Scientist - Sep 14, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
5Career Growth
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2Management

“Everything is great except the (lack of) management and technical leaders on my team”

Verified User Current Employee · o***** · Data Scientist - Aug 23, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
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“OK place to work ”

Verified User Former Employee · D***** · Software Engineer - Aug 10, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
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“Great WLb and career growth, poor comp”

Verified User Current Employee · w***** · Software Engineering Manager - Jul 7, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
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“Limited growth”

Verified User Current Employee · c******** · Program Manager - IT - Jun 24, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
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“Fun job”

Verified User Former Employee · c***** · Customer Service - Jun 18, 2021

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Rating Score5.0
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“Good company ”

Verified User Current Employee · d***** · Software Engineer - Jun 4, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
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“Great work life balance ”

Verified User Current Employee · d********* · Software Engineer - Jun 2, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
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“Good work life”

Verified User Current Employee · D***** · Software Applications Engineer IV - May 7, 2021

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