Pros
YOUR EXPERIENCE WILL VARY DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU WORK! I worked at two stores. It's marginally better if you work in a smaller boutique location, because you get to run the store as if it were your own. You can manage, merchandise and market the way you feel is best. You are essentially a full blown stylist and a personal shopper with your own clients, but with extensive managerial duties. Your coworkers are the defining part of the job -- it's fantastic if you get along. The "experience" looks great on a resume if you want to further yourself in the fashion industry... that's about it.
Cons
First and foremost, if you are not as thin as a twig, they will ridicule you. Unacceptable. They literally publicly singled-out one employee on a company-wide conference call to say she was too large for their clothing, and therefore shouldn't be representing LF as an employee, especially not in their social media posts! She was probably a size 25-26. Disgusting attitude. Incredibly rude, condescending, uncaring and unhelpful upper management. IF YOU'RE A STORE PROFESSIONAL, RUN AWAY! Home office/CEO/VPs are catty and immature. You'd almost think they were in high school, not grown women. They speak badly about one another right in front of you. They don't care about anything as long as money is coming in. You are expected to follow all their demands and still make their sales goals, which is absolutely unrealistic. Luckily they don't follow through in the smaller locations, or seem to care (unless you're working in the LA or NY stores, and if you are, good luck.) Nothing is ever good enough. There's no structure. They want to hire "fashionista" party girls, who typically make terrible employees. They couldn't care less about responsibility. You're expected to work until the work is done, which means working INSANE amounts of overtime. Awesome if you're paid hourly, but I'm pretty sure government occupation health & safety agencies would "disapprove," to put it mildly. There's essentially no HR and there is zero involvement unless something drastic happens. Upper management is incredibly difficult to get a hold of when you actually need their help, but they are ALWAYS available to criticize you! There's zero chance of promotion to a home office position but even if there was, I wouldn't have wanted it -- who would want a position where you'd be surrounded by mean, judgmental, rude, petty and unprofessional??? Oh, and good luck during the sale... the hours and exhaustion are a danger to your health.