Finish Line Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Finish Line full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great discount, fun environment, helping others

Cons – Mall hours, lack of hours to run the store

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Finish Line full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Working as a team. Traveling. Paid for moves, shoe discounts. Move up within the company

Cons – long hours. Work on Holidays

Advice to Senior Management – Train your employees and learn to delagate

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Finish Line full-time for more than a year

Pros – 30% discount
Interacting with customers
Putting smiles on customer's faces

Cons – Disrespectful store manager as well as other employees
Questioned me every time I asked for a certain day off as one of my two days off
Almost impossible to get a weekend off
Disregarded my days off that I put into FLASH and would schedule me when I was supposed to be on vacation
Store manager continuously insulted my intelligence

Advice to Senior Management – Be more professional and treat employees the way you expect them to treat you, with 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 Finish Line part-time

Pros – -fun environment
-teaches you about professionalism
-interactive way to learn about sales tactics
-makes learning engaging

Cons – -can be a competitive atmosphere among sales associated

Advice to Senior Management – N/A

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Finish Line full-time

Pros – The discount...30%
The product
And if you are lucky the people who work for you

Cons – Promises made, but never kept
Running stores with very little hours, but extreme pressure to produce results
Advancement opportunities are slim to none
Pay scale is unbalanced

Advice to Senior Management – Care about your people more. Store managers shouldn't be working 55-60 hr weeks for $40g/yr. fix the commission pay scale to be balanced with what the store managers make, MIT's should never make more than a store manager. If you want results I.e. sales gains, give the stores the hours needed not the bare minimum. Quit investing money into technology just to be the first, we should want to be the best, and we can't do that if the technology doesn't work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Finish Line full-time

Pros – If you work at a larger store you get to work with a few (generally younger) cool people. Can be high energy. A good manager will really get you past any fear you had with going into sales. This is a good company to introduce you to a sales environment (in the bigger stores).

Cons – The smaller stores are dead boring. Smaller store=slower mall. Not as much to aim for and no hours to have more than one or two others a shift to work with.

Advice to Senior Management – Update the crappy stores.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Finish Line part-time for less than a year

Pros – The interview is easy
The scheduling is quite flexible
Employee discount
enviroment

Cons – THE PAY (definitely not equivelant to the amount work you do)
standing for long period of time/ or the entire time of working minus breaks obviously

Advice to Senior Management – pay us more smh

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Finish Line part-time for more than a year

Pros – 30% employee discount.
Chance to move up if your good.
Assistant managers can make decent money.
Employees are usually easy to get along with.
Generally easy to get time off.

Cons – Hours are never stable, you could go from having 18 hours a week to having 5 hours a week.
Sales associates are enticed with commission, but base pay is so low that you rarely benefit from it.
Commission is really only beneficial if you are a manager.

Advice to Senior Management – Make hours more stable for all employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Finish Line part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Not pushy about sales. Get very good training. good manager support. learn a lot about industry. great discount on shoes and sometimes get free pair of shoes

Cons – Low pay. high school job. No promotional opp. not willing to work with schedule. some management members been there for long times and not been promoted.

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

Former Employee – worked at Finish Line part-time

Pros – Pretty good for a high school job to get some sales/ customer service experience.

Cons – Your entire experience depends upon the store management. I worked there for a year but eventually left because of mine (who was later fired). Our stock room was dangerous and dirty with old ladders, broken boxes, glass, trash all over the floor. I was supposed to be evaluated for raises on a periodic schedule but my manager never got around to doing that for anyone. All managers were unprofessional and immature 30-somethings that would come to work hung over and gossip.

Advice to Senior Management – Executive management seemed to work well, but there needs to be personnel improvement at the individual store level.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend