The experience doesn't match the reputation - Anonymous employee REI Employee Review

2.0
21 Jul 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You get deals on outdoor gear, and there is a competitive benefit package.

Cons

There is no work-life balance. Teams are incredibly disconnected and can't work together. The leadership is clueless and can't move with urgency. Every decision requires 15 leaders to sign off, and bold, ambitious endeavors are reduced to subpar efforts that require 3 times the work for one-tenth of the results.

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5.0
25 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

very supportive management and team members.

Cons

sometimes, the hours are late. But very doable.

3.0
20 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Excellent coworkers - REI does a great job of hiring enthusiastic and personable staff - Slightly better pay compared with other retail in the area - Prodeals and discounts - Flexible hours - Good (although rapidly diminishing) healthcare benefits

Cons

- Once a (better) company known for its investment in knowledgeable and friendly staff via extensive training and investment, the company has been slowly slashing away at most of what makes it special since the pandemic - Hours and benefits are worsening, proper employee training is becoming hard to come by - lots of mediocrity and sometimes questionable ethical calls made by management - Punitive disciplinary policies that seem to be designed to create higher turnover (advantageous to them given the gradual pay, benefit and policy changes)

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