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DICK'S Sporting Goods

Is this your company?

Don’t take my word for it accept a position here you’ll soon wish you didn’t - Assistant Store Manager DICK'S Sporting Goods Employee Review

2.0
19 June 2019
Recommend
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Pros

There are some really good people that work here

Cons

Unreadable expectations, absolutely zero work life balance, if your a salaried manager resolve to having no time with your family, dicks is about the money, no family values at all, most GMs (not all) are (how can I say this nicely) less than desirable. Some are downright childish. They tell you customer focus, but finish your tasks, if you don’t finish your tasks because of customer service, they tell you don’t make excuses, no tasking on weekends but that’s just what they say the expectation is task on the weekends. Did I mention there is no work life balance? You’ll work 60-70 hours a week if your salary. The GMs hold everyone accountable but themselves, they burn out the good associates, oh and get ready for everyone’s hours to be cut and I mean to the bare bones minimum. ASMs are forced to close with 3 associates, one at the register hopefully one in footwear and the other to run around everywhere else while the ASM handles the store operations. I could go on for hours. Before you apply here walk around the store and ask the associates how it is and ask them to be honest. Oh and $10 hr will be the max you’ll be paid and you’ll get at best a 2% raise after a year if your full time. But then at review time they will say no money in the budget we won’t be giving raises this year. You can go just about to any other retailer and make better money and have a better work life balance. While Corp employees are enjoying thanksgiving dinner with their families you’ll be working an extremely long shift on thanksgiving and Black Friday, I literally saw an associate work a full 24 hr shift just so he could make a decent wage and have a decent paycheck, and I am not exaggerating a full 24 hours straight. I am not trying to bash the company either, I am just being honest about the things that go on. And give you the best advice I can. If you want to make $9 an hour and work 15 hours a week you’ll probably enjoy it!

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5.0
10 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Employee Discount Opportunity to provide customers an experience in which they can be confident in buying a new shoe for style, function and support-related reasons. Great selling tools, devices and display fixtures to work with

Cons

This is not really a con since I believe it is an important part of the job. Newer and current workers may need to keep up up to date and do research on products in order to be able to help customers effectively and efficiently.

1.0
23 June 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Employee Discount Access to Expert voice, which seems like no one tells you about, That's about it.

Cons

The biggest problem is there's no defined end to the night. We're scheduled until 9pm, but it's become normal to stay an hour, two hours, sometimes even longer past that because leadership keeps adding more tasks and finding new things to fix after everything is already done. It feels like the goalposts constantly move. My availability hasn't always been respected, communication has been poor, and there's a huge difference in accountability between employees. The people who work hard and stay busy all night end up staying just as late as the people standing around talking or doing nothing. Instead of addressing the actual productivity issues, everyone gets held hostage until leadership decides the store is finally good enough. I've worked retail for years, and every other place I've worked had a clear definition of what needed to be done before you could leave. Here, it feels like there is no finish line, which makes it impossible to plan your life around a part-time job. The discount and perks are nice, but the lack of consistency, the constantly changing expectations, and the uncertainty about when you're actually going home have made the job a lot more frustrating than it needs to be. If you're thinking about working here and want to work night shifts, plan on staying well past your scheduled end time until someone tells you it's "ok to leave". I was told I needed to ask for permission before clocking out, great leadership skills.

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