Good culture, under paid - Sales Associate Kohl's Employee Review

4.0
Mar 29, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

I’ll preface this with different stores have different vibes/cultures so what I believe won’t be true for every store. I’ve been with Kohl’s for 3.5 years. I started out as just seasonal, but they asked me to stay on. I like working for the organization. My store has a nice culture. We have a very mixed group and everyone seems to get along and help each other out. I’ve had the opportunity to learn all positions. So any week I could have 3-4 different assignments. They have always been really good about giving me time off (I always ask ahead of time) and allowing me to flex my schedule.

Cons

The pay is below average for retail jobs in nearby locations. I hate that the most value you can have as an employee is to successfully push their high interest credit card. They have had 3 CEO’s in my time there. Each has made some pretty bad decisions as to how they want the company to run. They have eliminated some senior managers in the store hierarchy so now there’s supervisors and leads that are overwhelmed with too many responsibilities. In addition, the floor staff has been cut way down so that often there are only 1-2 people on the sales floor even on the busiest days.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

(Mostly) amazing coworkers and flexible schedule most of the time. Good part time job for college students. Pay was decent.

Cons

Very limited full-time positions, leaves little room for career opportunities. Terrible team environment, feels like a fend for yourself fiasco everyday. I didn’t feel as if my managers or anyone at corporate really cared about any employees and it was just the employees caring for each other. Training times were wildly short, usually only a short shift or two on each area to train (registers, floor, bopus, etc). Corporate is difficult to get in touch with even for customers and they WILL take it out on you and management at any level does not seem to care.

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