Under Armour Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Under Armour part-time for more than a year

Pros – Good employee discount of 50%

Cons – The managers's are rude, careless, immature, dishonest, and ego-tistic to their employees. The manager's act is if they are better than their associate's. The pay is not that great for the work you do, and the manager's will expect you to work your best. Even when you work your best and ask for employee growth or when you could possibly get a promotion they told me I am far from becoming a manager and I should work harder. Which just can't be true because other manager's go on and on about my hard work. I felt very unpleased to hear my hard work was not apprecitiated.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn how to treat people with respect no matter how small or young they are. Under Armour hire's at age 18 the age of an adult. They should treat people like adults, not like grunt's or second rate people. In my book there are no second-rate people, I treat everyone with kindness and respect.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Under Armour full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Benefits and discounts along with innovative product

Cons – Out of control retail environment with no support from Tide Point HR partners. Very young staff with little to no organization with allocations and merchants.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Under Armour full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good benefits, stock program, discount and nice corporate campus. Made some great friends "teammates" as misery loves company. I moved here from Ohio and Baltimore is surprisingly a pretty nice city. Too bad I will not be here much longer.

Cons – Nobody in senior management is looking out for anyone but themselves, everyone is coming from somewhere else and looks like they are just out to put the Under Armour name on their resume. When I came to Under Armour I was expecting a great corporate culture. I am very disappointed, there is no team environment, just a very negative and toxic corporate environment. Nobody can make a decision without fear of being thrown under a bus. I understand that the people who work in the outlet stores are much happier. Turnover here is ridiculously high. Those that have been here for several years say that it was better in the past. Work/life balance is laughable!

Advice to Senior Management – The people that founded UA were visionaries and are now resting on their success. The people at the senior level that they are bringing in have no passion. I heard Kevin Plank speak about his company and I wondered if he was actually talking about the same place. The greatness of a company is directly tied to the people who lead and inspire their team. The great leaders of Under Armour have left the building. I hope they come back.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Under Armour full-time for more than a year

Pros – Company is on a trajectory of growth. Great potential in the atheltic market.

Cons – There is definately a corporate 'boys club' If you are not one of the boys forget it! A crushing 'get 'er done' / 'find a way' attitude. You can't climb the corporate ladder if you are not perceived to be a 'crusher' in the work force. Asking for help is perceived as failing. There isn't a strong career path to set employees up for success. Not enough support given to employees to help them succeed. Lots of turnover at the Sr. Management positions. Extremely difficult corporate culture to become part of. Not inclusive of people who don't fit the perceived mold. Company preaches innovation but when different ideas are expressed they can be immediately silenced if not what a Sr. Executive wants to hear.

Advice to Senior Management – Encourage employees. Look at ways to help individuals succeed. Hire outside of KP's inner circle. Change the corporate culture.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Under Armour full-time for less than a year

Pros – Started as a part-time employee at a factory house during college. I was selected as a summer rookie - Great program, learned all I could about UA, loved it and UA loved me. Finished my Master's and UA hired me for a full time position. Low salary, but I relocated, loved the job, loved Baltimore, loved most of the people I worked with & still keep in touch with them! Great location, healthy environment with discounted gym membership, fun corporate events and 50% discount on UA product.

Cons – I was encouraged and complimented on my work (also told I was leader among my peers in my end of year review). I was also invited to travel with Sales Managers to multiple accounts later throughout the year... only to be "let go" just before I was there 1 year (just before raise and bonus time, hmmm) Weeks later, I found out this happened to about 20-30 others but was kept very quiet to those still employed at UA... still unsure how they got away with it but had I come from a wealthier family, I would have without a doubt hired a lawyer to investigate further. Months later, I was replaced and did some investigative work to find out that my "replacement" is making even less than I was... so basically letting a bunch of us go, to re-hire someone for less was a great way to save some money... but I find it very unethical.

Advice to Senior Management – As other reviewers have stated, HR does not really have a handle on what goes on and favoritism is rampant in some areas (including our team especally with my direct supervisor). HR really needs to look at policies, how to investigate properly and how to handle a situation like this ethically. That being said, there are more wonderful people than there are backstabbing, dishonest people - it is truly a shame that this is allowed to go on. For so many years my brand loyalty (and everyone close to me) was with UA and now we will never purchase or encourage others to spend a penny on the product because of the unfair way I was treated. Try to learn from these mistakes because one day, you are not going to get away with this treatment.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Under Armour

Pros – Employee discount, resume builder as externals believe it is a great company to work for.

Cons – Favoritism. Opposition to change. Difficulty embracing new teammates.

Advice to Senior Management – Get out of the locker room and frat house...find the keys to the boardroom.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Under Armour

Pros – Well known brand, free stuff (if you knew the right people), fun events, nice coworkers. The on site benefits are pretty good (like coffee and company events).

Cons – Low pay, no/low feedback on job performance, if you aren't part of the "Chosen Few" (up through management)- good luck staying around for long. Long hours and unfair treatment as well.

Advice to Senior Management – If you keep pushing non founders out of the company, it will never grow to where it could be. Check you egos at the door.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Under Armour

Pros – Good Benefits, Collaborative Team, Fast Growth

Cons – Backstabbing management, no feedback on performance

Advice to Senior Management – stick to your values, give feedback to employees

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Under Armour full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The products and branding are typically quality

Cons – I think women should boycott this company. The executive team is male-dominated and honestly I observed and have heard multiple companies working with UA talk of "bully-like" behavior from many of the UA executives. Buy Nike. Unlike UA, they treat their OEM partners, employees, and privately held companies with respect.

Advice to Senior Management – Clean house. Practice the golden rule. Hire executives with integrity, intelligence, and strong, positive leadership skills. You need some heart, UA.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Under Armour full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Discount, brand recognition on your résumé, chance to see athletes, fun corporate events, company pays majority of health benefits

Cons – Being everyone's friend is more important than work performance, they under pay 90% of employees and then drastically overpay the 10% that are in leadership roles, they often expect people to take pay cuts to come their just for privilege of saying they work at Under Armour. Bonus program is a joke and changes each year although it is "sold" to employees as part of their comp package. Many in senior leadership roles have little to know experience or training that relates to the role they are filling an all they have going for them is that they have been with the company for 10 +years, are family or are college buddies of the ceo, but they wouldn't be qualified to work anywhere else.multiple senior leaders don't have college degrees. UA lacks any concept of work life balance and frowns on people using their vacation time. UA loves to hire senior leaders and move heaven and earth to make them happy many of these leaders don't even make it a year and the teams under them suffer due to ever changing dynamics, goals and expectations.

Advice to Senior Management – Have base qualifications for senior management that remain competitive in the market including educations and years of experience. Value all employees not just the former athletes or CEO college buddies. Stop hiring outside leadership with less experience than individuals with in the team.