It's earned it's spot on #7 in the Fortune Top 100 list - Anonymous employee REI Employee Review

5.0
2 Feb 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Upbeat environment, fantastic medical benefits even for part-timers and seasonal employees, amazing discounts and vender connections, great advancement opportunities if you're mobile, awesome training

Cons

Getting hired is really difficult as a slew of people want to work at REI, hours can be hard to come by

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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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