Great Brand, Great Family-like Culture & Values, Poor Execution. - Store Manager Vans Employee Review

2.0
Feb 11, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Promotional Opportunities Generous Employee Discount Strong Emphasis on the Brand and its history

Cons

Store payroll budgets are abysmal. Restrictive work schedule. Somewhat Antiquated processes. Bonus criteria is extremely tough to achieve in higher volume stores.

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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
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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