Pros
-In general, nice socially conscious employees -The company presents lots of fronts about doing good and some are real -Neat product, discounts got less and less over years
Cons
-Management is overbloated and so protective of their jobs, there's a pretty toxic culture in management -So many changes every 6 months, new values, new purpose, new mission...new technology - that's a hard pass. REI attempts to overcome its culture challenges through re-aligning values and performance evaluations instead of actually addressing the core issues - toxic, tenured managers -Corporate survey is 'blind', it really isn't. Every manager can slice it and sort through and pretty closely identify who submitted which response. Employees are forced to complete the survey, managers are rated on completed survey %'s. SO MANY MANAGERS reported to HR for bullying employees to complete the survey and complete a certain way -Pay. Needless to say, people will say the pay is low for retail HQ. Shockingly, its about 40% below market. Benefits - 5 year vest for Retirement with a 5% match AT 5 years, health insurance is crap, plan on spending substantial out of pocket even with the high-deductible programs. I was mid-level and paid less going through open insurance market than using REI's -Slow moving company, slow moving systems with opaque leadership so its managers in their fiefdoms -Employees are incentivized to turn on each other to make themselves look good -Zero HR support, active claims of toxic manager behavior (discrimination, bullying) were repeatedly ignored or the ICs were shoved out. Better to be quiet and look elsewhere quietly than speak up