Great team culture but high stress and management pressure - Asistant Manager Vans Employee Review

3.0
May 11, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great team environment with a strong sense of community and self expression. The fast paced atmosphere helped me grow a lot in leadership, customer service, and multitasking skills while gaining experience in operations, merchandising, and coaching. The company also offers a fun culture, supportive coworkers, and a brand that is easy to feel passionate about representing.

Cons

The work environment can be extremely stressful during high traffic periods, especially in tourist-heavy locations where staffing and payroll do not always match the workload. Management expectations are high, and there is constant pressure around sales metrics, conversion, and task completion even during slower seasons. Communication and support can vary a lot depending on upper leadership, and burnout is common for long term employees balancing customer service, operations, shipment, and staffing challenges all at once.

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5.0
Jul 14, 2026
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Pros

Great job to work at

Cons

Other than talking to people, there are no cons

4.0
Jul 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Depending on District/Store great culture. Awesome discounts and bonus incentives for full time management. Relatively lenient on being able to use your discretion with difficult customers, "What Would Van Doren Do?" - basically make the customer happy reasonably. Great position to learn retail and people management in - applied itself to any career field later on.

Cons

Job Security (retail and working in malls in today's landscape can be tough depending on location). Corporate can be corporate sometimes, DMs or RMs pushing unreasonable and ridiculous selling behaviors sometimes.

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