REI - A great place to work. - Engineering Manager REI Employee Review

4.0
10 Mar 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Since REI is a co-op, they can take a longer term view without shareholders breathing down their neck for short term gains. The co-op is also heavily involved in the communities where they do business and is an outstanding advocate for protecting the outdoors.

Cons

Advancement can be challenging especially if you're in IT. By nature, IT is a small organization so movement, lateral or upwards, is limited.

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5.0
20 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fun time with fun employees

Cons

Schedule was tricky to coordinate

3.0
20 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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