DICK'S Sporting Goods reviews

The company lies, the corporate brainwashing that occurs here is off the charts. They will try their best to make you think that employees come first, meanwhile it's all about the bottom line. Which is okay since it's a publicly traded company until they force you to come into the office during a Pandemic (COVID-19) without any sort of contact tracing. Besides that, everything they say about their values is all superficial and is on the surface only. Let's dig a little deeper... The toxicity within the company culture will begin to take a toll on you within the first couple of weeks. Combined with the inability of the managers to effectively lead and manage people (they will look down on you and expect you to be okay with that) and the useless amount of meetings, you will be bogged down and second guessing your choice of working here. Career advancement is a joke and your manager will "conduct these conversations" to simply check the boxes of their requirements. It will make you wonder how these individuals even got to their position. Need-It-Now disease...Everyone has it! They will act like they need work done immediately and will harass you until they get what they want. If you don't mind that, you will certainly care about your work/life balance. It's not a balance, it actually doesn't exist here. Your bosses will likely make it a time measuring contest to see who stays the latest (doesn't matter if you have family obligations) you will be expected to work later than you'd expect. Communication is a huge flaw within the culture. Stores simply want to do their own thing and do not want to be messed with the corporate team. That same exact mindset is shared from the top down within the corporate team. If all of these do not dissuade you from making the worst decision of your life to join the company...let's talk about compensation. You will be consistently working for less than what you are worth within industry standards.

If you are in the creative field, e.g. designer, creative manager, writer, etc., you should think long and hard before joining the marketing dept at DCKS Sporting Goods Store Support Center (AKA DCKS CORPORATE). In league with a corrupt HR department who deceptively claims to be about developing employees while they only serve to protect upper management with lies and reprisals, the creative wing of the marketing department is rife with incompetence and cronyism. The hard-working, talented employees are usually the ones who suffer the most, from stagnant career development to stagnant creative opportunities. Sycophants and lazy employees are rewarded much more than those are not. It is not uncommon for an employee to be in relatively the same position for 7-10 years, with little more than a small raise every year, if lucky. Furthermore, many of the creative decision makers lack not only the knowledge and talent to better the company's overall message (some don't even know or care about much of the sports or products they cover), they have an almost pathological resistance to new, innovative ideas and those who have them. Keeping the status quo is what keeps them in power, thus lower employees in the chain of command, no matter how loyal they are to the company or desirous they are to create standout work, are either put in their place or cast aside. NOTE: For years, it has been department policy that DCKS creatives (Not Field & Stream, Golf Galaxy, etc.) are forbidden to submit any work for ad awards, because "the CEO doesn't want to the company to be seen as bragging." Most affected employees believe this just to be another way of keeping their talent where they are, and not further their careers in any way with awards, and most likely leave for greener pastures. The HR dept. knows the goings on of the marketing creative dept., as well as the cronyism brought in by their current C.M.O.; they just don't care, or more likely, feel powerless to change things. This is the definition of a toxic work environment. Take heed, if you're a young, talented creative, and you have another option, don't waste any of your valuable career years in an anti-creative, anti-employee work environment.