great atmosphere, fair pay, but it's not enough - ASM- Assistant Store Manager lululemon Employee Review

4.0
18 May 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Free workouts were the best part! Generally management has a set schedule, which means only closing once or twice a week. Corporate constantly rolls out perks and small benefits for their employees which include holiday bonus incentives, more free workouts, and team challenges that result in amazing prizes (ex: a team ski trip with all expenses paid.) Most of the employees are TRULY invested in your personal development as an employee, leader, and human. The discount is absolutely amazing, and I'm so committed to staying within integrity (thanks Chip) that I won't even share it.

Cons

At the end of the day, you're still working in retail which means late nights and weekends. Only Assistant Store Managers and Store Managers have PTO, so any vacations taken are unpaid. They re- structured the compensation plan which resulted in lower pay for high volume stores that were already doing really well. The 401k program (new in 2016) was poorly rolled out, and not user friendly for employees. The "drinking the Kool Aid" atmosphere is VERY real, can be intimidating to new employees and customers.

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5.0
24 Jun 2026
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Pros

Compensation Culture Autonomy Product Benefits

Cons

If you can’t prioritize your time, it can be easy to feel out of balance. I feel that at times and need to shift but with a strong leader, there’s always support to do that.

2.0
8 Jun 2026
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Pros

The benefits with the sweaty Pursuits is good and the insurance is good too! You get a team that you get to put together and get to know them and see what works for you guys to be successful in a processing shift!

Cons

The nights are long and very overworked. They ask a lot from you and usually they put the business before you. It’s always we need this and that from the managers but not actually taking time to help or to actually see that we are trying our best and if they actually worked a shift with us and saw the struggles they would understand more. They think it’s easy, when the weight of the store depends on us. You are also qualified as a Guest Experience lead since you have to do both trainings so the management do over utilise that and you will be doing two jobs. Even though it says in the description to support the floor but there’s a difference between supporting from time to time and doing it all the time where you are running the floor and the back at the same time but they’ll say “oh why isn’t this done?” Maybe because you’ve told me to help you out ? The are also very selective about who moves up to be a manager. No work life balance at all!

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