BuyItDirect Reviews

3.3

55% would recommend to a friend

(167 total reviews)
avatar

Nick Glynne

69% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

BuyItDirect has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 167 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BuyItDirect employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

Reviews by job title

167 reviews
1.0
23 Nov 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Young friendly work force in place. Found it easy to make friends with people. The staff canteen was ok but not great.

Cons

Company hire recent graduates and placement students to backfill roles with little experience. Scrutiny is high and Nick Glynne the MD micro manages every aspect of the business. This is fed through to management and hence every employee is undervalued and fed up with their jobs. Id warn anyone thinking of getting a job here, you will be underpaid, overworked and under appreciated.

1.0
17 Sept 2018

Worst Company to grace the retail industry

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There is nothing good about working for this company.

Cons

If you aren't popular or not well liked you are continously undermined and harassed because you aren't consider a part of the 'team' regardless of how good you at your job. My manager didn't seem to have a clue on how to do their job and would rather talk about gossip at work instead of trying to do their job. The environment was of a children's classroom with most people constantly saying bad things about each other and creating wild rumours. The company constantly undermines customers and say very distasteful things that i wouldnt even say about someone I hated. All in all the company is extremely backward and doesn't pay employees well at all. My advice to anyone wanting to work here is stay very far away or you will regret it.P.S most of the good reviews on here have been faked as we got emails from management to do a review to get the score up.

1.0
18 Dec 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Dress down, other colleagues are nice met some good mates that I will have for life. One female manager was so support to me and I wouldn’t have lasted as long as I did if it wasn’t for her. She deserves everything.

Cons

The management. Dunno how they call themselves managers when they don’t know how to manage. The team leaders are cool but they’re just little puppets. Everyone gets sucked in by the lies told. All male managers are snobby manipulative narcissists. They also gas light you into thinking you’re wrong when you was right. No progression unless someone leaves or you become a case manager but even then it only ends up being £100 more a month not even that. If you stand up for yourself you’re called a chav. There’s no confidentiality everyone will know your business. The people come and go. I started in 2019 and will admit I loved it for first year or so. After then I soon realised the company is corrupt including HR department. Wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw them. The make managers are also very touchy feely and won’t be sacked for it.

Viewing 1 - 3 of 167 Reviews

Glassdoor has 170 BuyItDirect reviews submitted anonymously by BuyItDirect employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if BuyItDirect is right for you.