Great place to work and contribute to the growth and evolution - Director REI Employee Review

5.0
11 Oct 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Senior leaders are great and very approachable. I have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the future of the organization and still have great worklife balance. Our five-year is exciting and inspiring. We aren't publicly traded so we don't have to react to the quarterly Wall Street mania. We play the long game which enables us to to the right thing for employees, members and our community! We walk the talk :-).

Cons

No organization is perfect and the pace of change has been slower than I've been accustomed to but that is is much improved in the last few years. We are experiencing growing pains which is hard on people who have been here a long time and understandable to newer folks who have already experienced this elsewhere.

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5.0
25 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

very supportive management and team members.

Cons

sometimes, the hours are late. But very doable.

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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