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Updated Jun 5, 2023
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Pros
- "Great people and discounts it was awesome back in the day when hottopic was one of a kind rock store" (in 131 reviews)
Cons
- "The pay is low and you only get a good amount of hours to actually pay bills if you are upper level management." (in 267 reviews)
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- Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★Featured Review
Pros
Awesome teams, great environment, fun place to work at!
Cons
Pay is a little low but overtime can be used
- Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Fellow employees and customers are amazing. flexible schedule works well with college schedule.
Cons
Low pay rate for retail job.
- Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Fun Work Environment, Terrible Company
Apr 15, 2023 - Floor Sales Associate in Cedar Park, TXRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
If you're into pop culture, and wanna make some friends then its a good job for that. The workers are usually very nice and down to earth.
Cons
The company does NOT care about their employees. You are a disposable asset. You will have to fight tooth and nail for respect. They will cut hours and rearrange your schedule to whatever they need, disregarding what you need completely. You will be forced to promote deals and loyalty sign-ups to the point that most customers get annoyed even coming in. The music volume has to remain at a very high volume ALL the time, it drives customers away and will leave you with a headache after every shift. Not worth it unless you are just looking to make some extra money on the side and don't care about your schedule.
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Staff Nice, District Managers meh
Jun 5, 2023 - Sales Associate in Dulles Town CenterRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Great staff, fun job, nice people
Cons
Upper management isn’t good at communication, and will throw you under the bus
Continue reading - Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Fun environment and simple tasks and duties expected of someone in an assistant manager position
Cons
Pay, hours, in store theft, unreliable employees
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pretty decent atmosphere
May 27, 2023 - Seasonal Sales Associate in Peoria, ILRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Great Music, Great customers, great atmosphere, everyone is super friendly and you meet a lot of new people. The discount is pretty nice too.
Cons
Hours are split pretty rough. Some weeks an associate only gets 4-5 hours a week and the pay is sub-par at best.
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Loved the people, customers, and most of the experience. Fun work enviroment
Cons
Underpaid and overworked. That’s how they do you big time here, refusing to schedule me my requested amount of hours months after I requested, and paid me less than an external hire after I worked there for over a year
Continue reading - Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Great Job for Students
Jun 2, 2023 - Retail Sales Associate in Los Angeles, CARecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Extremely flexible and great work environment
Cons
Hours can get extremely tough to get during the down times of the year
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great discount, fun environment, easy going management
Cons
Very little hours as a sales associate, only about 2 5 hour shifts some weeks
- Current Employee★★★★★
Good work environment
Jun 2, 2023 - Data Analyst in City of Industry, CARecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Good people to work with
Cons
Too many touch bases sometimes we don’t need them
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Hot Topic Reviews FAQs
Hot Topic has an overall rating of 3.6 out of 5, based on over 2,004 reviews left anonymously by employees. 64% of employees would recommend working at Hot Topic to a friend and 42% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.
64% of Hot Topic employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Hot Topic 3.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.0 for culture and values and 3.2 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at Hot Topic to be culture, benefits, coworkers and the cons to be career development, management, compensation.
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