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DICK'S Sporting Goods

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Overall Good, The company promotes from with in 6 of 10 times. They fire people for dumb stuff and keep bad employees. - Team Lead DICK'S Sporting Goods Employee Review

4.0
7 Jul 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Dick's is a pretty simple place to work, You will probably start as a cashier and be expected to push credit cards and their reward card called a score card. If you do well it is easy to get promoted to a lead position and after a few years a manager. If you show up for work on time and to all your shifts you have a good opportunity to advance. Managers are nice and easy to work with. As a manager your life will be dedicated to Dick's Sporting Goods. To be a successful manager you have to work 50 to 70 hours a week. this could be a pro or con depending on the person but they DO NOT DRUG TEST.

Cons

Hours, A full time employee with a family may only get 30 hours a week no matter how good their performance is. Then when you become a salaried manager you will work over 55 hours most week. so there really is no way to work a NORMAL 40 hour a week retail job. Dick's needs to create a system for full time employees to work a rotating schedule like LOWES does. Lowes gives employees a weekend off a month along with another Saturday and Sunday off each month. also people get fired for dumb stuff when others who have no brain get promoted.

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5.0
10 Jun 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 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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