Abercrombie & Fitch Reviews in Houston, TX Area

Pros

Very very flexible schedules, people are generally really nice.

Cons

Pay is minimum wage; They expect you to go above and beyond with basically no incentive.

Advice to Senior Management

This company makes so much money, pay the part-timers a little bit more and you wouldn't have so much turnaround. Also, on an unrelated note, it's pretty dumb that the Management Training Program requires a bachelor degree.

Pros

Discount if you wear the clothes and being able to say that you work/ed at Abercrombie and Fitch.

Cons

The pay is low, there is no respect from management, hours are only given to favorites, impacters have to do the job of model as well, little to no room to be promoted, very superficial ( hire based on look)

Advice to Senior Management

Increase hourly wage because impacters and model at the end of the day are the ones that keep the store going...not managers, have actual training and not 2 useless videos that you watch during "orientation" and hire for more than a pretty face because no one likes an airhead! And train managers better!

Pros

Discounts: you are given 20% normally, and 50% on select items (occassionally). If you are a college or high school student, they will work with your schedule.

Cons

Again- the discounts. How can this be both a good and bad thing? They expect you to use your paycheck to buy clothes. Although they say you don't have to buy/wear their clothes, the dress code is so exclusive that you pretty much have no choice but to buy/wear their clothes. This might not be an issue if your entire closet is A&F anyway, but I would've preferred to keep my paycheck and use it on other forms of entertainment. Also, management seems a bit overworked and stressed out. Also, if you're looking for a job to pay your bills, then this is not the job for you. They even tell you this during the interview. There are literally 100+ employees and usually only 7-10 workers per shift (including floor and stock room), so you will only work about 15-20 hours per week (unless you're in management).

Advice to Senior Management

You say we don't have to buy/wear A&F clothes as long as what is worn is within the dress code. If that's the case, please stop looking at your employees crazy if they decide they don't want to spend their entire paycheck on a new A&F outfit. Thanks

Pros

Health benefits were great
Quick Hire process

Cons

Long hours with only 1/2 time overtime. avg of 60 hour weeks.
Working weekends, nights and holidays.
Hire and promote based on looks.

Pros

The only reason that I would work at Abercrombie and Fintch is the employee discounts that you get when you buy clothes from there.

Cons

They don't really give you hours, when I was working they only give me about ten hours a week, and also no raise.

Advice to Senior Management

They need to start hiring people who know what they're doing, all the managers who are working there are kids

Pros

The people are the best part.

Cons

The pay, the hours, it's customer service, the company cares more about recruiting than it's employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Spend more time in store unnounced to see what is actually going on and bring Mike Jefferies along to see.

Pros

social, discount, meet alot of people, flexible

Cons

exciting at first but then quickly becomes boring and mundane, hours based on looks, they are constantly looking to hire because the turnover rate for managers, models and impacts are extraordinarily high. The pay is less than that of comparable mall retaliers. generally not a good place to take seriously for an occupation.

Advice to Senior Management

Take an unbiased look at the whole company from top down and seriously try to figure out why people don't last with this company. It won't take long to come to a conclusion!

Pros

The benefits are pretty decent. The discount on clothes was ok. You got to wear shorts and flip-flops to work.

Cons

The pay is awful. If you work over 40 hours, you get "half-pay" which basically cuts your hourly rate in half. You work for less than what the cashiers make. However, it's impossible not to work under 50 hours, since most of the stores are very under-staffed and you have to do the tasks of several other people. Working the holidays was horrible. I would get there at 4 pm and not leave until 8 am the following morning, because the store was a mess, which was because the store was so understaffed that there were not enough employees to maintain it during the day! Oh, and the "raises" were terrible. After working there for 8 months, I got a 24-cent raise.

Advice to Senior Management

Increase the starting pay for managers. Increase raises to an acceptable level. Realize that the managers are people, not robots.

Pros

Working at Abercrombie and Fitch was a blast and a learning and growing exprence. You leaarn the basics of running any store recruiting hours payroll.

Cons

4 year degree required to be in management that you never use. You can't think for your self . you don't really control any aspect of the business.

Advice to Senior Management

Comunicate

Pros

The work is extremely easy, folding clothes for hours is not difficult. No interaction with customers, very relaxed work place.

Cons

Long hours, management often pressured associates to stay past their scheduled hours.

Advice to Senior Management

Make corporate jobs more apparent, most of these kids are in college and can ad some benefit to the corporate ideas if they are removed from the store front