Pros
Extremely Customer Service Oriented as far as training and development is concerned and growth from within is highly encouraged, as is steady fast.
Cons
They use company history, culture, and values to incentivize working for the company but in full transparency, this is completely neglected by their complete focus to increase goals and productivity with unrealistic payroll reductions on a yearly basis. Being that Vans is a subsidiary of its parent publicly traded company, the main goal is to keep its shareholders happy. That makes sense. But the toll it takes on its store managers who work on shipment, training, development, payroll control, scheduling, customer service, markdowns, loss and prevention, complicated window changes, operations, and etc. is extremely stressful. As much as you want to delegate any of these responsibilities to other keyholders/ supervisors, the allotted payroll makes it extremely difficult to run a successful store as the store manager takes the brunt of it all and eventually decides to leave.