Loved working at Vans. Best retail experience ever. - Anonymous employee Vans Employee Review

5.0
27 Oct 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The store manager and district manager were absolutely amazing. Gotta love the 50% discounts and 70% sales through the year. The manager was understanding about school schedules. Most of the employees were college students. I hate that I had to quit.

Cons

Only paid $8/hour. Would have preferred a bit more.

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5.0
12 Mar 2026
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Pros

Fun work environment if you love skateboarding/surf type of vibe.

Cons

Less hours during nonpeak season

3.0
22 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The environment is absolutely amazing with my coworkers and they are always supportive. Any issues that arise are met with a high level of humanity - on the base level of the people I work with, because I haven't really delt with corporate. It genuinely feels nice to work here when you have a team like mine. The culture of skating is absolutely amazing to learn about at VANs and be a part of as well. I like the history behind some of the shoes, but that's probably just because I'm a history nerd.

Cons

Part time doesn't get many hours or enough pay to survive off of. However, you can't become full time unless you get a higher position. Sadly, they are incredibly hard to get, due to the fact people seem to stay with VANs if they get that promotion, just because it seems to be great to work here once you have that higher position. As well as the usual shift is 4 hours, and sometimes you only get one shift a week. It's just incredibly hard to stay here when it can't even give you enough money on your paychecks to get a small amount of groceries that'll last one person two weeks.

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