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Academy Sports + Outdoors

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Great for first job or college student - Anonymous employee Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

1.0
May 10, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

They can be flexible with scheduling. Decent discount. Great tuition reimbursement plan. Affordable health plan if single.

Cons

Big time favoritism between management and coworkers. I still can't figure out how they pick the candidates for the MIT program?????? Management is on a power-trip and likes to dictate over anothers managers department instead of watching their own. To busy worrying about if your shirt is tucked in and you are wearing your name tag instead of throwing a football around and helping a customer! Love to lie to your face and when you catch them on it they look at you like they don't know what your talking about. Love to use the excuse that its corporate fault. Managers gossip more than the employees and try to use it to make employees quit so they don't have to fire them and pay unemployement. I loved it when a department manager said to watch out for another department manager because he will stab you in the back. I would rather trust the manager that he said to be careful of than him. I could go on and on but this is just one store. But from what I can tell, The managers are not much different. I believe the first class in the MIT program is how to lie to your employees!

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5.0
Mar 16, 2026
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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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