Pretty good experience - Anonymous employee Sunglass Hut Employee Review

3.0
Apr 3, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great work environment; very team-oriented. you'll learn a lot about how to approach customers from a different angle, not just come across as a salesperson. You'll make lifetime friends/colleagues. Great scheduling/flexibility for those still in high school/college. Highly recommend for students.

Cons

company is going through some changes and policies are getting stricter. its harder on the employees who are already in the company; if you're going to join the company now, you won't notice the difference and you should manage just fine. Promotions from within the company have come to decline since the changes have taken place; instead of promoting from within (like they used to) they are hiring people from the outside for upper-level management. It makes sense from a macro standpoint but it hurts the employees who have been loyal to the company for years.

Explore other reviews about Sunglass Hut

5.0
May 12, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

good pass time to earn money on the side

Cons

loads of online learning materials and lectures you need to consistently watch and do quizzes on

4.0
Jun 27, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Getting 1% of your sales commission every month + base play + bonuses depending on how well the store does adds up a lot. When I worked here, I was one of the best sellers in my district and my store was 14/21 in our district - which led to me making roughly $21-$23 an hour once you added everything up and divided by the amount of time that I worked. Stocking and pushing stuff to the floor is cartoonishly easy considering how small the sunglasses and that packaging actually is. AP is super easy because there's not that much ground to cover. The biggest thing is that this job basically lives and dies by how good of a seller you are and how much of a people person you are. 80% of this job is just about making sales and hitting company quotas and the other 20% is visual merchandising, operational management, making schedules, etc.

Cons

In my district, the district manager kept badgering us about our numbers and moving goal post for us even when we were off the clock and getting in touch with him was nearly impossible. They're also really nitpicky when it comes to how you allocate hours and how you schedule people - even when the store is already meeting company goals. There's also just a lot of straight up favoritism in upper upper management and a lot of nonsense decisions the DM just made because of "vibes" and nothing else. They pushed a lot of unrealistic goals for stores on super short notice and they came up with a lot of ideas that were just kinda trash - while forcing us to swallow it and to try to make it work.

See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All