Abercrombie & Fitch Reviews in Columbus, OH Area

Pros

Laid back
"Jeans & Flip-Flops" attire, very casual
Casual work environment
Good work/life balance
Employees often socialize outside work

Cons

Pay is low
Can't move up in the company until college is fully completed
Sometimes management gets uptight

Pros

The only reason to work at A&F is to have the name on your resume. Oh, and no one works on Saturday except the stores and the boss.

Cons

If you're not sucking up to one of the 3 evp's, you probably won't make it for very many years. And if you get on the wrong side of any one of them, check your watch.

Advice to Senior Management

Best advice I can think of is: promote or hire some competent people to run human resources, allocation, distribution, marketing, oh, and the company while you're at it.

Pros

you get paid well to manage high volume areas, so you gain a lot of experience.

Cons

You work long hours and your direct manager likely has no to little experience managing people.

Pros

Well-known and respected brand, extremely professional, interesting work

Cons

It is hard to rise up because management usually looks outside of the company for top positions

Advice to Senior Management

Promote more from within rather than always hiring from the outside

Pros

You work at ANF for the reputation and prestige the name brings with it in the retail industry. Make the most of your opportunity through networking and you should be rewarded. Especially after college, it is a great place to start a career in the corporate retail world and serves as amazing training for your next company. Ongoing worldwide expansion over the next 5 years makes this the place to be.

Cons

Jobs are specialized and most employees are relegated to unique, repetitive, time-intensive tasks, but that's how you learn. To me, it always seems like families and people with babies get promoted faster. I doubt that that is true, though.

Advice to Senior Management

Everyone is so super busy I feel that it is easy to get lost in trying to find that mentor. While managers have a duty to the business, they can't forget their duty to their internal employees.

Pros

Great compensation, culture, corporate events, and benefits.

Cons

Micro managed from the top down. Free thinking discouraged

Advice to Senior Management

Encourage outside the box thinking

Pros

Diversity, the brand name, the campus environment, exposure to senior executives on-campus

Cons

Repetitive work in some positions

Pros

Loved everything about it. Home Office is beautiful and has a great vibe. Only quit the job because my husband got relocated overseas

Cons

The massive parking lot makes the walks into your building 10-20 mins.

Pros

A&F has the best benefit packages I have ever had, not to mention so many other perks. The campus is absolutely beautiful, and although some areas require extremely long working hours, mine were 8:30-5:30, no exceptions. My job was low stress, and the pay was on the high end for my industry.

Cons

It's a little ridiculous-you HAVE to look like an A&F clone to get ahead or even be accepted there. at 32, I was a good decade older than most employees.

Advice to Senior Management

My personal boss was great, but most areas are run by people who have only been working for a few years...very underqualified for their positions were they to move to any other companies.

Pros

Smart people, great benefits, and a working environment that matches the brand.

Cons

Very demanding without a lot of respect for people. Churn employees after 1-2 years.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat employees better, show respect for other's ideas that may be different than Sr. Management, without using fear as a tactic.