Books A Million Environment Employee Reviews | Comparably
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Books A Million is a book retailing company that sells books, magazines, collectibles, toys, electronics and accessories, and gifts. read more
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Books A Million Environment Employee Reviews

What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?

The team is the best part of working at Book a Millions.

LGBTQ feels safe here. It's a safe place. Everyone belongs.

Its mostly positive, but some pf the managers can come across as unkind and rude.

The employee discount is the only positive thing I can think of right now. The culture is mostly pushing for metrics and getting told we should be grateful for any pittance that they give us for a raise once a year.

My coworkers, being around books and talking about books with people.

Review from Sales Dept

Ineffective communication, district level + leadership is incredibly unhealthy for effective teams.

Not sure. But the overall culture comes from the top and that is not the most operationally sound

The books and the types of people that are drawn to bookstores

coworkers, happy repeat customers and new ones

Probably the fact that we all have common interests

Review from Sales Dept

Everyone that works at the store is friendly and hard working

My coworkers are often quick to assist me whenever I have questions or need a problem fixed

The "smiles" and willingness to help. A "welcoming" atmosphere, Going the "extra-mile" to achieve customer satisfaction.

Review from Customer Support Dept

There is no discrimination there

The love for our products

My coworkers and managers really make the environment as fun as possible.

Review from Customer Support Dept

discount on items in store

Review from Sales Dept

The people who work with me.

Review from Customer Support Dept

We sell some neat books sometimes and some of the customers are cool. That's really it. We are all so disheartened and beginning to find other jobs to phase out BAM from our lives.

Review from Customer Support Dept

I enjoy the work environment because i'm surrounded by things I enjoy

What needs to change to make the company culture better?

Pay better and dont lean on a certain political side. Move inventory around faster. Update the systems to make it easier to help customers out.

We need harsh rules on communication and personal life of what can be said and shouldn’t be allow

Review from Sales Dept

For managers to accept BAM is not their store. That we should follow what BAM says not how this manager likes it over this one.

The company needs to become more customer minded. We build relationships with these people and get them to come back time and again. Forcing employees to exploit this relationship by making people force a gamestop type tactic on the customers is embarassing.

Review from Sales Dept

More fairness amongst employees. Hire better people

Review from Sales Dept

It’s a slow store so not many customers. The only problem is the manager

Review from Sales Dept

Employees should get paid better. People who actually do work should be compensated for it.

Review from Sales Dept

The company culture is all about me, me, me. They don’t know the meaning of the word team. Everyone is out for themselves.

Review from Sales Dept

The management needs changing in this store.

Review from Sales Dept

Review Sentiment at Books A Million

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57%
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43%

About Books A Million's Environment

C-
65/100

Where This Score Ranks Books A Million's Environment

BOTTOM
35%

In the Bottom 35% of 2025 similar size companies on Comparably

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Not enough ratings to compare against companies in Anniston, AL

6th

6th place versus 5 competitors rated on Comparably

The environment at Books A Million is considered positive by 45% of employees and regarded as having a “comfortably fast” work pace by 20 employees. Books A Million ranks in the Bottom 35% of 2025 similar sized companies (1,001-5,000 Employees) on Comparably.

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  • Experience - Entry Level
    +17%
  • Experience - Over 10 Years
    +11%
  • Gender - Male
    +6%

Rate Environment the Lowest

  • Ethnicity - African American/Black
    -16%
  • Experience - 3 to 6 Years
    -11%
  • Department - Sales
    -3%

How Books A Million's Environment Score is Calculated

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Results from 56 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

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7 or less41%
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On average, how many hours do you work a day?
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Extremely fast23%
Comfortably fast36%
Moderate32%
A bit slow4%
Bureaucratic5%
What's the work pace at your company?
AnswerPercent
Positive45%
Negative55%
Is your work environment positive or negative?
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Yes75%
No25%
Does someone you work with closely, make you want to quit your job?
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Yes80%
No20%
Do you have a close friend at work?
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5% or Less25%
5-10%25%
10-25%0%
25-50%50%
50%+0%
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