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Academy Sports + Outdoors

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1.0
Apr 24, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Worked with some good people over my time there. Old regime really cared about people and the team really worked well from top to bottom. Hard work can lead to promotions.

Cons

New management came in post KKR purchase and began to have layoffs every 6 months or so - 100 employees here, 75 employees there. Morale is the worst I've seen - always waiting for the next shoe to drop and corporate employees are abandoning the company - even good employees are actively looking for new jobs. Great company culture that was built over decades was thrown aside and employees that were around before the transition are viewed as a "threat" to the new way of business.

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5.0
Mar 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Awesome team and coworkers, nice pay, store discount 😁

Cons

4am starting I don't have a car that's all I can think of really... I like the work

1.0
Apr 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The customers there were wonderful to talk to

Cons

Had to quit due to team leads aggressive attitude towards me. Also favoritism issues. I can tell they didn't like me since day 1. Today they came to me rudely about mistakes I made instead of doing it professionally. I haven't been there for long and I was still learning. I made a lot of improvements which I was really happy about, but was still learning. As much as I liked working there, the team lead was very rude/unprofessional towards me and it was so bad to the point I had to leave. The same team lead followed me outside and said "good" that I was leaving (in front of customers too). I was improving a lot in the position, I want to hear constructive criticism, but not like this. I was hoping to grow with the store and the company but unfortunately its not meant to be. This could've been 100% been prevented if only they would came to me professionally about this and I would be more than happy to fix any mistakes and do better in the future. But if this is how they treat their coworkers I do not wish to be a part of that toxic culture and headspace. Do better.

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