Memory Express Reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(58 total reviews)
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Minh Ngo

62% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Memory Express has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 58 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Memory Express employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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58 reviews
1.0
Feb 11, 2018

Sales Person

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Pros

Some very knowledgeable loyal customers. The pay is acceptable for retail. Everyone gets severance pay, very few people are fired for a good reason. Most of the employees were pleasant to be around.

Cons

Extremely rude management team, almost to the point of harassment. The management team constantly "Borrowed" product without placing the product on work orders, never to be seen again. Repetitive blind threats to staff based on which clique you are a part of. Multiple times management would want someone out of the company, so instead of coaching or correcting, they would move them to a different department, and when they were not capable of doing that job, they were terminated. Sales people get burned out quickly, this doesn't help that you get zero breaks on a 9 hour shift, you do however get an unpaid lunch that usually leads to you having to answer phone calls or go back to your till.

2.0
Aug 20, 2018

Good people; management is always improvising

Anonymous employee
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Pros

• Good salary for sales and customer service reps ($36K annual; $17/hr) • Good benefits for all employees (100% coverage) • HQ has a light touch on retail operations, which means each store can do what works best for its particular situation • Generally positive work environment and culture

Cons

• Salaries for sales, customer service, and other retail staff have been frozen since 2010 or earlier • Mediocre salary for retail managers and HQ employees ($40-55K) • Company has a base+bonus salary scheme designed for sales reps and tries to apply it to all types of employees. Customer service reps and HQ employees are under compensated as a result. • Company continually promises salary increases to individual managers and HQ staff but doesn't follow through • Stores operations across the country are inconsistent • Company promotes managers and specialists from within, rather than bringing in external hires with professional experience. This means the company doesn't follow best practices for decision-making process, meeting management, goal-setting, budgeting, etc. As a result, company initiatives and directions are reactionary and improvised, and projects can be cancelled or changed at a moments notice. Morale and productivity suffer as a result. • Dominant company owner can't trust anyone else to run the operation, but is too focused on his other investment projects to run the operation himself. As a result, he parachutes in on occasion, makes major changes (cancels or starts projects, fires someone, or changes a policy) then disappears again. • One company owner is very progressive when it comes to trying new technologies, techniques, business models, etc. The dominant owner is very conservative, and often kills projects that the other owner has invested time and effort in.

4.0
Mar 15, 2018

One of the better retail jobs out there.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Above average pay for retail. Most staff are geeks. Most days were fun.

Cons

Sales are commission based. Much of your earning potential is built around selling the optional company warranty.

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