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Dover Saddlery reviews

3.1

47% would recommend to a friend

(184 total reviews)

Brad Wolansky

45% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Dover Saddlery has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 184 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Dover Saddlery employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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184 reviews
1.0
May 6, 2014

Opening the door for SmartPak

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The discount is only great until you realize how much they mark product up, then it seems like nothing. Management is usually flexible about needing a day off; however, not always.

Cons

Management is disorganized and can't seem to make accurate projections about inventory/timeframes. They continue to expand with new stores, but froze wages on employees - have they forgotten who gets the product to those new stores? Terrible "mean girl" attitudes/behaviors with some coworkers. Very, very little opportunity for upward movement within the company.

2.0
May 16, 2024

Going Downhill

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazing employee discount, able to work in an environment that aligns with the hobby you're most passionate about, and the employees are great and willing to help if you ever need it.

Cons

Almost zero communication between higher management and lower employees, making customer service work very difficult by changing online platforms with minimum training, as well as having software that is not meant to handle retail outside of the brick and mortar store. The new owners seem to be taking away the brands the customers really want and replacing it with sub-par Dover branded items. Sales/clearances are not well-thought-out in regard to stock and often customers get very upset when they can't get what is promised. Before leaving, it felt as if mediocrity was to be promoted. Often projects given that do not relate to actual job of customer service as well as refusing to fully cross-train employees to be able to cover when short in another area of customer service (thus pulling a supervisor from their regular duties to fill in position and being unable to help with any issues that may arise in an expedient manner). Lastly, since going mostly remote, the training has been severely lacking and CSRs make mistakes that should never happen - and repeatedly making same mistakes, thus costing the company significant money to keep the customer happy. You always feel as if you're one mistake away from being let go. That's not even to mention the "restructuring" they've been doing by eliminating necessary departments within corporate and shifting that responsibility to others that typically do not know how to preform duties of dissolved areas as well as being overworked.

1.0
Jun 24, 2022

Winter park is a joke

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Discount Working around other people who love horses

Cons

The management at the winter park location is very rude and disrespectful. Only cares for themselves and abuses the company policies like letting past employees buy things under current employees accounts, tent sale the bargain basement is a free for all where they made up their own prices instead of what’s marked, even buying things with their discount to sell to people for a profit.

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