Vera Bradley reviews

3.0

25% would recommend to a friend

(839 total reviews)

Ian Bickley

28% approve of CEO

19% positive business outlook

Vera Bradley has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 839 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Vera Bradley employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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839 reviews
1.0
Sep 13, 2024

Rebrand is not going well.

Recommend
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Pros

You get a nice new hire welcome gift. The team lead starting pay is decent. ($17 an hour, minimum wage here is $12) I love my co workers.

Cons

They took away a large part of our discount. They have cut the payroll hours for the stores in our district to less than half of the hours given in July. We were told "just the month of August" Team leads all got 14 hours each for a few weeks, now it down to 12. September's hours were even less. I'm 99.9999% sure they will still be cut in October.

2.0
Jun 15, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

After working at Vera Bradley for nearly two years, I thought I'd come to love working there. Good if you enjoy hectic work spaces, selling, or decent quality product.

Cons

Quickly found just how stressful and agonizing it was to wake up to go to work. You are expected to at all times be selling, with little to no regard for the cleanliness of the store unless it is empty, which is either very often or never until end of day, the hours can either be amazing or dismal, and worst of all, HR doesn't do anything about harassment, doesn't address actual issues within the workplace. Corporate has clearly never worked in an actual store, pushes constant expectations onto the team non-stop. If you're part time, nearly none of the benefits apply to you, there are ZERO growth opportunities because they'll take a new hire over bringing someone who's already worked there any day of the week, and one of the managers at the store I worked at was a closeted racist who drove away all non-white coworkers.

2.0
Apr 20, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Had great customers that would be regulars and would ask for me. The discount was a plus and sometimes they would reward by give Vera Bucks(play money) out to everyone for making sales or just because.

Cons

Mean girls club is what I called it. Not the same as it use to be. Company needs to go back to how it was over 7 years ago. Being a girls best friend! Upper management is lazy and are not fit for the company.

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