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      What is the salary like at Hot Topic?

      Hot Topic reviews

      Cool environment but poor management

      Retail sales associate
      Current employee
      Hialeah, FL
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Employee discount and flexibility, no uniform and you will find people to work with

      Cons

      The pay is awful, the hours are bad, I had a bad manager, work place drama

      Review

      Sales associate
      Former employee
      Sanford, FL
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good people, good management, good customers

      Cons

      Bad pay, bad hours, limited opportunity for advancement

      Bad pay, a lot of pressure

      Assistant manager
      Former employee
      Flagstaff, AZ
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Fun environment, GREAT employee discount, good music, fun product

      Cons

      Terrible pay, A LOT of pressure from corporate, a lot of work for little money

      1

      Best Place to Work

      Assistant manager
      Former employee
      Indianapolis, IN
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great team, great support, flexible

      Cons

      Pay isn’t great, No career advancement

      Pretty good just wish pay was higher

      Part time assistant manager
      Former employee
      Houston, TX
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The People there are awesome

      Cons

      The pay is way too low for how much work they ask of management

      Worst DM ever!

      Anonymous employee
      Former employee
      California, MD
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great company, good pay and benefits.

      Cons

      Worst DM who had her favorites. Liked to do wrongful terminations to those who didn't deserve it. And the one's who did deserve to get fired, got promoted

      Easy

      Sales associate
      Former employee
      Allentown, PA
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Employees are chill and easy to work with

      Cons

      The pay is very low and the available hours are even lower

      Part time assistant manager

      Assistant manager
      Former employee
      Wichita, KS
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Cool environment, fun job, decent discounts on merchandise.

      Cons

      Low pay, not enough hours, employee turnover is extremely high and most of my time was spent interviewing high school kids for 6 hours a week positions.

      Great first time job

      Sales associate
      Former employee
      College Station, TX
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      awesome discounts and flexible schedule-ish

      Cons

      pay could be better, doesn't really work around a family and student schedule.

      Run far away

      Anonymous employee
      Current employee
      Tulsa, OK
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Discount, non leadership coworkers, uhhhh

      Cons

      Low pay for amount of work, the district and regional managers aren’t nice