It's ok - Sales Associate Vans Employee Review

3.0
Nov 27, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- 50% discount off full price items, 30% off sale - easy to move up to floor supervisor positions, that is if old college drop out adults aren't hogging the spots - usually chill coworkers - never opens earlier than 9am

Cons

- if your managers don't like you they'll give you the new kid jobs ie. mopping, cleaning the bathroom (nobody actually does these jobs) - a lot of detail things that you have to remember when doing your job - Vanity Fair owns us, you work your ass off, no it's not a "chill" easy job - really awful pay and bad "raises"

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5.0
Jul 14, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jul 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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