Cool, but not worth it. - Sales Associate Vans Employee Review

2.0
Sep 10, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The great discount on shoes, accessories, and apparel, the fact that everyone thinks its cool that you work at vans.

Cons

Expected to perform at a level that doesn't correspond to the pay. Lack of Respect towards employees at my location. The worse part is that while Vans puts this facade of a laid back work environment you pull back the veil of awesomeness to reveal an extremely demanding sales policies.

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5.0
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CEO approval
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jul 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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