What is the hiring process like at REI?

The pay is really good, if the work is done you could go home early.

They hire new people that pushes out the hours for all the other CO workers. Then the schedule gets all messed up and makes management schedule extra days off because there's no work.

Hard to mention, more cons in the end. Nice people to work with to some degree, customers can sometimes be fun.

❌️RECENT REVIEW. CAUTION FOR PART-TIME HIRING vs. PART-TIME PLUS. 10/2024. STORE WILL HIRE YOU MOSTLY FOR THEIR BIG SALES AND DISPOSE OF YOU MONTHS LATER WITH NO RECOURSE PRIOR. Overall a place where like too many places have managers who intimidate, hide, and pretend to care. The whole company in your short training pretends to give a crap about community and yet they don't communicate to you prior on ways that actually build community and a team that doesn't avoid conflict but works through it, which is why partially I'm sure the store is losing money and the company as a whole. Too much turnover here. They just dispose of you without any accountability on communicating ways to make up for anything if truly accidental, they don't actually do their jobs and thus it is a place to come and go and collect a paycheck. Sad, cause so many customers like me have commented on being surprised but that's why the store doesn't align with it's values. • DYSFUNCTIONAL! • They may laugh about this instead of genuinely addressing it. The store is not what it could be as a Co-Op. • Somewhat deceptive practices in hiring. • Part-time is NOT part-time. • Part-time = no guaranteed hours* • Management will string this process of revealing you have no guarenteed hours throughout the hiring process. They'll likely say 16 hours, 8 hours, and then no hours. Thank you Josh. • This store has a process that is not clear enough. • They often hire more than needed for big sales, which creates a problem on the back end. • They don't value you enough, past their own definition of value. • Your value there to the store is a low bar for what little bit of change could be implemented to show the connectedness of a real co-op. •Real change would cause others less mental health issues from the lack of accountability, which was all I heard from other employees! • They have unclear procedures that they can turn back on to favor them, which to someone guarenteed no hours is poor management. • Not an honest enough, transparent, or truly connected store for communication and hiring. • They are losing revenue, so it seems unlikely hiring will stay stable. Seems like a bad design. *You are told two different things. I was told there was a process to handle issues, and then last minute with no options was told they did not have to honor it. •🚨 They expect more loyalty from you than they return which feels unhealthy. • ⚠️It feels, unfortunately, like a place where they want more connectedness. Still, they do not represent REI as a company, and that is why the store and the company are losing revenue and making workers who were deceptively given mixed stories in hiring to cover this store's tail, acting as if they care. • They discard you without proper accountability for their end of things with timely and direct communication. Their management does not come to you to work on issues and address them properly ahead of time or at all. • They will refer to "coaching you" as a brief, passive mention of procedures brought up in an untimely manner, all of which is dysfunctional. ■The Store Manager Ross and a younger manager Josh are HIRING YOU TO BENEFIT THE STORE, not you in the end. I wish I had seen this sooner and yet so much talk about community. ●Many are there more for the paycheck in the end than REI claims to be. *That is why the lie falls apart slowly. • You cannot keep something going well when its foundation is dishonest and self-serving, and it creates an appearance of good when it is not so in pretty key ways underneath. I can claim accountability for why I left, but not having a store held to the same accountability shows me that it was nothing more than a façade for the "team" and "Co-Op" they appear to offer. It is false advertising in the end. 1/3 of the store are avoidant people who take no accountability overall emotionally and in communication, and are unfortunately jerks because of this, sadly. I WOULD SEARCH FOR WORK ELSEWHERE! Just a genuine heads up.

Hard to mention, more cons in the end. Nice people to work with to some degree, customers can sometimes be fun.

❌️RECENT REVIEW. CAUTION FOR PART-TIME HIRING vs. PART-TIME PLUS. 10/2024. STORE WILL HIRE YOU MOSTLY FOR THEIR BIG SALES AND DISPOSE OF YOU MONTHS LATER WITH NO RECOURSE PRIOR. Overall a place where like too many places have managers who intimidate, hide, and pretend to care. The whole company in your short training pretends to give a crap about community and yet they don't communicate to you prior on ways that actually build community and a team that doesn't avoid conflict but works through it, which is why partially I'm sure the store is losing money and the company as a whole. Too much turnover here. They just dispose of you without any accountability on communicating ways to make up for anything if truly accidental, they don't actually do their jobs and thus it is a place to come and go and collect a paycheck. Sad, cause so many customers like me have commented on being surprised but that's why the store doesn't align with it's values. • DYSFUNCTIONAL! • They may laugh about this instead of genuinely addressing it. The store is not what it could be as a Co-Op. • Somewhat deceptive practices in hiring. • Part-time is NOT part-time. • Part-time = no guaranteed hours* • Management will string this process of revealing you have no guarenteed hours throughout the hiring process. They'll likely say 16 hours, 8 hours, and then no hours. Thank you Josh. • This store has a process that is not clear enough. • They often hire more than needed for big sales, which creates a problem on the back end. • They don't value you enough, past their own definition of value. • Your value there to the store is a low bar for what little bit of change could be implemented to show the connectedness of a real co-op. •Real change would cause others less mental health issues from the lack of accountability, which was all I heard from other employees! • They have unclear procedures that they can turn back on to favor them, which to someone guarenteed no hours is poor management. • Not an honest enough, transparent, or truly connected store for communication and hiring. • They are losing revenue, so it seems unlikely hiring will stay stable. Seems like a bad design. *You are told two different things. I was told there was a process to handle issues, and then last minute with no options was told they did not have to honor it. •🚨 They expect more loyalty from you than they return which feels unhealthy. • ⚠️It feels, unfortunately, like a place where they want more connectedness. Still, they do not represent REI as a company, and that is why the store and the company are losing revenue and making workers who were deceptively given mixed stories in hiring to cover this store's tail, acting as if they care. • They discard you without proper accountability for their end of things with timely and direct communication. Their management does not come to you to work on issues and address them properly ahead of time or at all. • They will refer to "coaching you" as a brief, passive mention of procedures brought up in an untimely manner, all of which is dysfunctional. ■The Store Manager Ross and a younger manager Josh are HIRING YOU TO BENEFIT THE STORE, not you in the end. I wish I had seen this sooner and yet so much talk about community. ●Many are there more for the paycheck in the end than REI claims to be. *That is why the lie falls apart slowly. • You cannot keep something going well when its foundation is dishonest and self-serving, and it creates an appearance of good when it is not so in pretty key ways underneath. I can claim accountability for why I left, but not having a store held to the same accountability shows me that it was nothing more than a façade for the "team" and "Co-Op" they appear to offer. It is false advertising in the end. 1/3 of the store are avoidant people who take no accountability overall emotionally and in communication, and are unfortunately jerks because of this, sadly. I WOULD SEARCH FOR WORK ELSEWHERE! Just a genuine heads up.

Working at REI is fine, if a little boring. Discounts are great. There are benefits if you can get to full time hours.

They go as far as they can to exert anti-union pressure without actually doing anything illegal. Return policy is unclear and hard to enforce. Technology is unintuitive. It is very hard to get consistent hours. As soon as you think you have your schedule figured out, a dozen new people show up and all of your hours disapear.

The job is not complicated and customers were easy to help in my time there. You get some good deals on products.

- Unreasonable late policy, that is designed to target certain types of employees. - Management has poor communication. - Management has poor employee evaluation skills or is not permitted to think critically. - Although I was working part-time seasonal, management seemed to favors certain employees for time-off requests.

Remote work. Fun people and culture. Discounts.

Reactive and chaotic work is the norm. Lack of horizon planning beyond the immediate future. Leaders do not bring each other and their teams along in their work. No opportunities for advancement. Strong preference for hiring external candidates. New hires and leaders can't hit the ground running amidst the chaos.

Has an innate way of hiring incredible people.

Does anything in their power to not recognize the talent they have.

-Work life balance was absolutely amazing -As a contractor the base pay was a lot less than what the market I was told was at -THEE best colleague I have every had to date as an engineer -Going into being a SWE with no real world experience, my teams reinforced my learning process and took their time to coach me

-As a contractor you don't get any benefits like FTE vacation, holiday, PTO, or discounts -As a contractor the pay is less than a FTE even though you are doing the exact same work