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Where do I start? 
To begin with, the environment is very hostile. You don't ever know when someone will get yelled at & humiliated in front of you. You also don't know when certain people think it's okay to hit someone for helping you. There are people there who will report you to high heaven if they do not like you even when they are the most unproductive members of a department. Bad managers are rewarded and good managers are intimidated by upper management if their team sticks up for them. The pay scale is also skewed, leaving everyone unsatisfied with their pay because these people will pay you bottom barrel dollar and expect you to go above and beyond the stars for them. Something goes wrong and it's your fault. Something goes right and it is all to upper management's "credit". This place should also be reported to OSHA for all the health hazards it contains & contained previously. Heck, at one point they had cockroaches in the water and NO ONE was informed for 2 weeks. We all drank that. They did get it fixed but still, 2 weeks w/ nasty water and 2 weeks on top of that to get it fixed so none of us had water we could drink. We began taking water bottles from the meeting rooms and we were threatened with warnings because of that.  Lastly, it is really hard working with people who think they are the best when they do not anything positive for the company. This includes upper management and some departments *coughmarketingcough*. Upper management refuses to listen and refuses to retain people. Most people do not stay past 2 years MAX. Almost everyone leaves disgruntled because they wish that they could have made iBUYPOWER better but it will never happen with the people in charge. They do not understand how the industry is evolving and they only care to hear impossibly high goals without the possibility of a come down. These people fire and push their good employees away in favor of false empty promises.

In the time that I worked at iBP I got my position switched 3 times. The General Manager Assistant (GMA) title is simply a placeholder to for management to put you in any position they want. There is a lack of leadership in almost all departments. Some people are willing to throw others under the bus to get their way moreso than any other company I have seen. However, most of the company's problem stems from upper management. All three bosses have different visions and ultimately clash with each other. Doing a task one way will only anger the others and end with you being berated, sometimes in front of other peers. Physical and mental abuse is commonplace here. Getting yelled at happens almost daily. The bosses will act like they care, but in reality they really don't. Behind closed doors they pull their rank if any issues are brought up and simply tell you there's nothing you can do about so don't bother. Good luck trying to voice a complaint to HR. The bosses do not even attend the sexual harassment training that is mandatory and simply get it signed off as if they attended. At times the bosses even walk in to take a look at your employee when they please. 
There is clear favoritism in the company as well. Good luck advancing if the three bosses don't like you. Good luck ever getting a raise if they don't like you. They prey on new people joining the workforce and exploit them into thinking that this is how a normal company runs. They groom people into becoming like them or simply becoming complacent. They drive out people that voice their opinions and will go through great lengths to see that you are dealt with. The most senior person within some departments may be someone that has worked there less than a year. That should speak volumes on their turnover. Save yourself the trouble, and don't bother working here. They push away the good employees and keep the "Yes" people.

the one thing that annoys me, was pretty much the way things are, that annoying phrase just lingers in the workplace: Early birds get the worms. 
people are nice, the company manages to make their employees knowledgeable enough to start the position, so it was nice. 
the training wasn't bad, it was practically the most enjoyable part of the job, so embrace it as much as you can.
for the record i worked before covid quarantine happened, and they upped their training after covid quarantine, before it was like "you have computer skills? ok. copy this and call me when you're done" finished, "ok now do this many" that was it training done in one day. 

I’ve worked at Ibuypower for 8 years now. Pretty much straight out of high school.
The first few years were great, pay was awesome. The company actually rewarded those who worked hard and surpassed the quota. Whether it be assembly, shipping, or inventory everyone was getting a decent monthly incentive. As of last year they completely removed the bonus incentives and have “raised” the base pay. My average yearly salary as a warehouse worker was about 50k. Those were the good days where I felt excited to exceed expectations and push out the hard work. Never in my life have I heard of a job that raises work load, but pays you less as the years goes on. I am now making about 28k a year. Ibuypower has absolutely no love for the employees who have helped build the company to what it is today. I’ve never felt so unappreciated as an employee.

Good place to get your start and learn but that’s it. Just get what you need and leave! Highly toxic work place, a lot of favoritism, and there’s a main click. Unless you make your way into the click ( some have been together since high school) or a favorite there is NO ROOM FOR ADVANCEMENT. It’s so bad we had an entire department walk out and they still refuse to address the toxic problems. They also have some people work jobs for months without getting proper title and pay. Unsafe, dirty, or stations that don’t even work. It’s so bad that bugs crawl out of the break room tables and you have to stop them from getting in your food. This place gave me depression and anxiety. I just completely shut down and stopped talking to people unless it had something to do with work. Just get what you need and leave.

ibuypower is a place that I desperately wanted to stay at. I recognized the experience offered but after leaving, I can say the trade off is not worth it. Managers will get promoted while you are left with all the heavy work and be treated poorly. As a new hire, I got handed senior level work and a 5 minute teams call and some screenshots. Managers will then call you out for messing up and not explain what you did wrong. you can likely expect to be given attitude(at least within my department) for messing up and a lot of passive aggressiveness, (blankly asking you why you did something wrong when you are new etc.) Your probation may also be extended for reasons out of your control so fair warning there. The best way to describe Ibp's environment is its quite toxic, at least in a good number of departments. You can do better. 

One of my biggest regrets as a working professional was accepting a position at ibuypower. The lack of leadership and direction in certain departments made me question how a company could possibly function with such carelessness of employee well beings. If you treat your employees well, they treat your business well. This job is great if you're living at home and have your parents to pay your rent, but realistically the lack of career advancement sent me spiraling to look for other work. Management is a joke and creates such a toxic environment in which some employees are afraid to ask questions in fear of being scrutinized. Other departments such as etail and web seem to have great opportunities, however it is unfortunate I was not able to have the same experience which ultimately comes down to who your manager is.

Management is terrible and there is a huge lack of communication between shifts (and in general) and little to no room to grow. HR is a joke and higher ups play favorites. This job made me so uncomfortable and worsened my depression and anxiety to the point of no return. Work is demanding with little compensation and recognition. Employees are not valued at all and there is little to no support from leads. Its literally just a dead end job. Its cool to start but don’t stay. There is no stable management, in the year I was there I had multiple leads within a short amount of time that were either terminated due to misconduct in the work place or quit due to unreasonable work demands and disrespect from bosses. Higher ups themselves almost set you up to fail as they tell leads to not communicate with their team when there are issues. Its a depressing job with lots of unnecessary drama but some of the people are cool. 

You know when you’re on a road trip and you stop at that weird gas station or restaurant in the middle of nowhere to use the bathroom, get a quick bite, and stretch your legs. You wonder to yourself what kind of people would live/work here. You spend a few minutes looking at the tourist items available. You go up to pay and the cashier has a rude sh*tty attitude coupled w/ weird people skills. Management looks more animal than human. You get in the car, and as you drive away as quickly as possible, you say wow.

Get what you need. Then get out. Whether that’s money, experience, resume-filler, etc. Stay focused on those things. Think of this place as a transition. This place is more transactional than anything else. They’re thinking the same thing, so don’t feel guilty.

Good luck

IBuypower is the worst company ever. Management is chaos. Unfair treatment all the time. Managers always play favoritism on certain people. Pay is extremely poor compared to the workload and all the responsibilities you need to take. There is no teamwork or any help from supervisors or managers. When something wrong happened, the first thing manager will do is looking for someone to blame and take the fault. Production always has delays and behind the schedule. Managers always setup extremely unrealistic goals. There is no employee appreciation at all. Bosses only care about sales and revenue. The company owners are Taiwanese. If you are Taiwanese and like to kiss the boss's a-$$, you will promote quickly and get big raise.  

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