Amazing environment, bad hours. - Sales Associate Vans Employee Review

4.0
Oct 21, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

50% regular discount. 30% off sale items. 20% off skate equipment. They are #1 on having a chill environment and almost everyone you will work with will be super nice and friendly because that's their demographic for hiring. The managers are extremely flexible with the times you tell them you cant work or getting certain dates off.

Cons

They have "on-calls" on your schedule and recently added a new type of on-call. One on call is when it is in your schedule but you have to call within 2 hours to check if you will go in. The other type of on-call is when they call you within 30 minutes to tell you to go in or not. Don't get this job if you do not have a reliable source of transportation or if you have too much school work. Get it in the summer.

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5.0
Jul 14, 2026
Recommend
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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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