Great if you love to be busy - Sales Associate Kohl's Employee Review

4.0
28 Aug 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Great coworkers. - Nice customers (for the most part). - Lots of Associate Shop Days and a decent employee discount. - Always new things to learn and do! - Plenty of room for advancement and cross-training.

Cons

- Burnout can happen very quickly, especially if you work POS a lot. - Customers can be nasty. - Managers breathing down your neck about selling credit and emails. - The pay is horrible. - Overworked and understaffed at times. - Unrealistic expectations. - Sporadic hours. One week you can work 30 hours and the next you'll work 4. Sometimes you'll be scheduled to close the store one day and open the store the very next day.

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5.0
31 Mar 2026
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Pros

Kohl's is a place for learning and development.

Cons

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1.0
22 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay is very good once you start getting raises. Weekly pay

Cons

Genuinely everything else, the pay is that high because they have to pay you over 25 just to put up with the awful environment. terrible structure, terrible management, no accountability, cliquey mean girl environment. managers are allowed to sit around and do essentially nothing while supervisors carry 100% of the load and there is no checks and balances to ensure management does the right thing. Corporate and HR genuinely don't care if certain people sit on their butt While others keep the business running. Credit card pushing is absolutely Off the Wall insane. Getting enough credit cards is all the company cares about and managers do not help. Managers are allowed to have no history with getting any credit cards at all and corporate doesn't bat an eye. If you try to speak out about anything that's going on you'll just get fired. Retaliation is allowed and encouraged.

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