Athleta reviews

4.0

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,960 total reviews)
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Maggie Gauger

80% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Athleta has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,960 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Athleta employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
May 21, 2017

Merchandising

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Booming business with high energy around the growth of the brand.

Cons

They have completely gapified themselves. Athleta no longer has it's own brand identity and has now conformed to be like all of the other gap brands. Promotes work/life balance but product teams have never had such a thing. People dropping like flies due to lack of support and aggressive deliverables.

2.0
May 18, 2017

Even if you like Yoga, Run

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great employee discounts, great benefits, great coworkers-begins and ends there

Cons

Don't mistake the Company marketing which is all about empowering women to translate to working conditions or situations. Marketing is marketing and they want to sell yoga pants. I had the unfortunate opportunity to work at Virginia store for the worst store manager I have had in 15 years. I witnessed her "massage" numbers to inflate program success, humiliate employees and discriminate among customers. When I brought this to the attention of District and Regional personnel, I was moved, offered a lesser position at a lower hourly rate and moved again until I left. The CEO of all of Gap came through the store at Christmas along with a Board member and didn't have the decency to even greet or thank the store team. Gap is huge and opportunities exist if you have good management and there are a few. If you enjoy selling overpriced low quality merchandise while being treated poorly this is the perfect spot.

2.0
Sep 16, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Moderate entry-level pay for NYC retail, employee discount across Gap Inc, easily accessible location, beautiful store floor

Cons

90% straight white women working there, rigid and cold management, petty coworkers. Heard countless racist and transphobic things on the regular. Often have to deal with terrible, entitled clientele.

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