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Academy Sports + Outdoors

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Fun, easy job while you're in hs or college - Footwear Sales Associate Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

4.0
Apr 6, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Tuition Reimbursement ($750/semester) 401k Paid Vacation Flexible Scheduling...usually okay with anything as long as you can work on the weekends. Everyone's pretty fun to work with. Company is constantly expanding and growing. --If you strive for it, you can become a manager in training or at least a Team Lead. Good discount - 25% Get to move around...not a good job for someone who is not slightly active.

Cons

When closing you will be expected to stay until at least 10:30-11pm. (Although this depends on your managers...with a particular manager I was there until 1 am a few times). Can be boring/tedious Again, if you are not interested in a job where you are on your feet for 6-9 hours a shift, do not work here. Although I liked the ability to be mobile.

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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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