Bass Pro Shops reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(2,681 total reviews)

John L. Morris

69% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Bass Pro Shops has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,681 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bass Pro Shops employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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3K reviews
4.0
Oct 21, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good discount on name brands (North Face, Columbia), awesome discount on Bass Pro brands. Fun and intelligent employees (in customer service at least) Involvement in the local community.

Cons

Communication issues between departments in store. Very little formal training for position, you just get thrown in. Management not available when you need them. You have to learn a lot because of the size of the store.

2.0
Jul 17, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good discounts, popular place to work.

Cons

Management has the collective intelligence of a class of Kindergarten students, things are always being changed to make doing a job more difficult; only to be changed again 2 months later, compensation is merely adequate but becomes trying at times due to the micro-managing hoopla that one has to deal with on a daily basis because of management's incompetence (this isn't all management though, there are several good ones that are some of the best in their field......its just the ones that feel the need to "justify" their existence or others that are a part of the "good ol' boy" system that don't want to offend anyone by making an unpopular decision or put their job in jeopardy by thinking for themselves).

2.0
May 11, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I spent over 10 years with them starting from the store to the Corp Office the best thing that it did for me is open doors for other jobs down the road. I got to know a lot of people in the industry from this job, and you did get to field test some of the products. The trips where a perk of this job and the free gear that you got.

Cons

Time lines where never met because communication from upper managment to Merch Dept was never communcated in a timely manner. The "office politics" where very bad if you where not in the Click well then you could forget about it. The pay structure made no sense at all if there was even a structure to the pay, the benefits where the worst i have ever seen in a company they where always changing and seemed to always get worse. The working area when i left was getting bad cubes where so small you could touch the walls on both sides of your area, and the mood in the office was bad everyone was sick of all the finger pointing back at Merch dept saying we where not getting things done when we wouldn't get the information till 3 weeks after it should have been turned in. The communication from the Corp office to the stores was also something that was a work in process but was getting a little better

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