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Academy Sports + Outdoors

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If you are young and incompetent with zero leadership ability you will likely get promoted! - Receiving Associate Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

3.0
May 5, 2014
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Pros

You get to sell a lot of really cool products! Customer interactions are pretty fun for retail. Very easy job for retail. They work with you on a flex schedule. Most management is easy going and lets the workers work without micro-management. 20% employee discount and 6% 401K match.

Cons

They love to hire 19 year old kids at a low wage and quickly promote them to Team Lead +$1 and then Senior Team Lead (+1.50). The problem is you have incompetent leaders making ~$10 per hour in order for the store to keep payroll costs down. College degree doesn't mean anything. They arbitrarily cut wage employee hours after bragging about the millions a particular store makes. Raises are low 10 cents - 25 cents. The most knowledgeable people in the store are the plain ol' associates who have been there longer than the Team Leads. Employee turnover is high. A lot of small cliques within each store. It is a lot like a high school atmosphere. An inept store director or department manager can do a lot of damage to working processes. Management allows hostile work environments to thrive long-term right under their noses. There is a lot of gossip within a couple days you know which manager is sleeping with which employee.

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5.0
Jun 29, 2026
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Pros

I enjoy working at Academy

Cons

Not much cons, except not much work from home options

1.0
Jun 20, 2026
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Pros

The easiest thing about job is the work itself.

Cons

The upper management is horrible on every level. They don’t care enough to even give job interviews, so you don’t know what to expect on your first day. Expect someone to not train you, but aggressively micromanage you and let you know what you do is wrong but not show how to do anything correctly. I’ve never seen a retail place operate so “by the books” but will make up rules on the spot when it’s most convenient for them. There is a severe lack of communication and care all around, partly from a lot of the managers being on different parts of the spectrum. The senior employees will also take out their home life problems out on you bc they’re jealous you got more credit card applications than them. Don’t work here unless you enjoy high school petty drama from ladies that have worked 30+ years in retail.

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