If you're an overachiever and care about your work, Vans isn't for you. - Senior Graphic Designer Vans Employee Review

2.0
Jun 17, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

• Half-day Fridays • Great 401k match • Big name looks good on your resume • In general, people are nice

Cons

*can only speak for the creative department, other departments may be better* • Leadership is a joke -- they let slackers get away with minimal work and overwork people who are good at their jobs. If you provide thoughtful work, you will be given more and more responsibilities while slackers literally go MISSING for days. Unfortunately even "good" managers are surpassed under this leadership, so even if you love your boss, their boss or director will block your career aspirations. • Minimal career trajectory -- unless you're a traditional art director working on "big" campaigns, there's little to no career trajectory for you. You can lead processes, teams, do work that provides BILLIONS of revenue to the company but you'll always be seen as a pixel pusher that should work under an old and outdated art director. (Oh, and when you finally leave, only then will they elevate your role to manager or split it into 2 roles because they realize you do so much.) • Boys Club Culture –- there is a boy's club culture that stems all the way from the president Doug and onto the VPs. This culture is about who's "cool" (do you skate? do you surf? are you a bro?) and not about who takes their work and deadlines seriously.

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5.0
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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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