Vantaggi
Great discount on beautiful items. Making operational a visual standards universal, which is AWESOME. Great stepping stone for management. Wonderful customers. It's great to see how much you help someone, doing their least favorite thing. Heavily invested in role playing material and product knowledge.
Svantaggi
The stepping stone thing, it's only to gain a title, but won't actually prepare you for what that title would mean in any other company. So beware if you think you can just go somewhere else with that same title. Erratic attempts at universal planning, which can mess with scheduling. Not enough guidance and trust given to core management within stores. Bonus structure for anyone not an assistant or above is laughable and patronizing. Base pay is equivalent to low end retailers that give a thousand times more leniency on self expression. Recruiting is grueling because of this and makes me think this company doesn't know it's competition in the labor world.