DICK'S Sporting Goods reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(12,159 total reviews)
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Lauren Hobart

78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

DICK'S Sporting Goods has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 12,159 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The DICK'S Sporting Goods employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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3.0
Sep 17, 2013

Very strong company, but ...

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Pros

- Great employee benefits - Entertaining place to work

Cons

- People who know people get promoted - Very hard to move between departments - Career development is put on employees with no help from management

5.0
Sep 16, 2013
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Pros

I have worked for this company for over a year and i cant even tell you how great of an experience its been. The managers are awesome and very motivating, they make you feel good when your doing your job right. Great hours and decent pay. Easy to move up if your doing your job well, i was recently promoted to Price and Signage Coordinator. Because of this job it has helped me decide what i wanna do as a career and i plan on getting an AA degree in bussiness and becoming a manager one day.

Cons

The only down side about this job is that work force management (The schedule System) doesnt always put people in the right places or at the right times. I am at times having to work in 2 departments at a time because of someone not being scheduled correctly.

2.0
Sep 15, 2013
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Pros

20% Employee discount on select items (unless they are already discounted to any extent). Easy enough job to learn.

Cons

Terrible policies on attendance, lead to about half of the decent cashiers quitting or getting fired due to being one minute late, There were 4 managers at my store, yet never enough employees working to get the jobs done. You have to sell a protection plan that is for the most part useless, then later explain to the customer you sold the protection plan to why you cant help him with his broken or defective item. You have to push Credit cards and rewards cards. The moral of the store I worked at was low leading to high employee turn over rate. They often drive away the better employees rather than pay them more. If you go on a planned vacation for a week even if you get the time approved, you have a good chance of finding out you were fired upon returning. The return policy is terrible leading to a lot of angry customers yelling at you. The sales signs are deliberately deceitful again resulting in disgruntled customers. You will almost NEVER actually get off of work on time. The Employee benefits are terrible. And you hard work will go completely unnoticed. I worked hard when I was there and the only time I ever once got a thank you was when I threatened to quit then did quit.

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