Academy Sports & Outdoors Reviews

Pros

The pros of working for this company is that there really is room for advancement when you put in the time and good work effort.

Cons

The only down side to working for the company was the hours, but its what to expect with any retail position.

Pros

Most customers are great to work for.

Cons

The HR department, have you seen the Office?

Advice to Senior Management

Quit trying to impress people others with you self indulging emails

Pros

Management was decent, morale is good

Cons

Stricter policies, some micromanaging, some bad attitudes

Advice to Senior Management

Relax, and trust employees instead of micromanaging

Pros

-Work around school Schedule
-Co workers are nice
-Advancement opportunites
-Discounts 20-25%
-Gift cards for customer service
-Free lucn on specail occasions

Cons

Where do I start.....
-Late hours.....close at 10 and you could be there till midnight
-Have to come in at 5 AM to do frieght
-The raises SUCK. I have been there for 4 years and have gotten a .95 cent raise all together
-Point system...If you have a doctors note for not being able to make it, you still get points
-Uniforms
-No benefits for PT
-Gets really busy during afternoon
-You cant take off during christmas and tax weekend
-Finding nasty things in fitting rooms
-Some people work really slow so you have to end up helping them
- managers may take thier time to walk your department.....

Advice to Senior Management

You should not have apparel doing showcase when none of us know anything about sunglasses, also each person assigned to a section should get thier clothes from the fitting room if its very busy

Pros

working with sports and out doors equipment plus discounts

Cons

my location was very strict when it came to scheduling

Advice to Senior Management

Be more lenient with schedules.

Pros

Private company with owners that care about the employee's and the community

Cons

Still growing and not a whole lot of opportunity just yet for advancement. They are opening a few more stores every year so it will get better in time.

Advice to Senior Management

Create a store director in training program so that outside hires that have store manager experience already do not have to take as big of a pay cut and have to step down to asm level in order to work for your great company.

Pros

Academy is laid back, it's fun, and has plenty of opportunity for growth if you work hard and are fair.

Cons

The retail environment definitely has its ups and downs...holidays are brutal.

Advice to Senior Management

Know your demographics and purchase items accordingly.

Pros

fun
discipline
great project
busy
great team
the working environment is great and i love the people.
customers are fun to talk with

Cons

might sometimes have mean customers, but its ok
it will get too busy, that customers start acting up.
might get loud.

Advice to Senior Management

great leadership style.
to be a leader is to be a follower.
treat people the way you want to be treated.

Pros

Tuition Reimbursement ($750/semester)
401k
Paid Vacation
Flexible Scheduling...usually okay with anything as long as you can work on the weekends.
Everyone's pretty fun to work with.
Company is constantly expanding and growing. --If you strive for it, you can become a manager in training or at least a Team Lead.
Good discount - 25%
Get to move around...not a good job for someone who is not slightly active.

Cons

When closing you will be expected to stay until at least 10:30-11pm. (Although this depends on your managers...with a particular manager I was there until 1 am a few times).
Can be boring/tedious
Again, if you are not interested in a job where you are on your feet for 6-9 hours a shift, do not work here. Although I liked the ability to be mobile.

Advice to Senior Management

Please continue to be understanding when students need/request that they need more time to focus on school and school related activities.

Pros

the products sold are fun, customers are fun,not going out of business any time soon and is growing slowly

Cons

the customers are very messy , very needy, there is a ton of paper workk if you do it properly and they dont give you enough labor to get the job done properly

Advice to Senior Management

if you dont have a life outside of work and you like working late nights, like 1AM 4 OUT OF 5 NIGHT S THIS MAY BE THE JOB FOR YOU