Nice company overall, but unskilled leaders. No room for new ideas/creative thinking - Senior Manager Vans Employee Review

2.0
Nov 2, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- If you are in the right team you will work with nice people - Family Oriented - Relaxed environment - Cool/fun culture

Cons

- Unbearable resistance to change. - Old mindset driven by old VP's with lame experience - Unqualified VP's/Directors, mostly because of their poor background and no will to keep learning - No room for personal growth or career growth, no learning opportunities, zero coaching - Judgemental tendencies - Demanding but not rewarding - Emotional / perception based decisions, especially in some Product departments - Nepotism - Lack of diversity

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5.0
Jul 14, 2026
Recommend
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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
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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