Great Company/Bad Management - Assistant Manager Vans Employee Review

2.0
Sep 18, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The discount is insane, atmosphere is laid back, job is easy, meet cool people, learn ALOT!

Cons

Unfortunately it all depends on the store and the management, I worked at a top notch store where everything was A+ got moved to work at another store to help fix it, improved sales, overall growth, employee training, but some times there is management that don’t follow rules.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jul 20, 2026
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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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