Fun people to work with and mostly great customer base to help - Camping Specialist REI Employee Review

4.0
26 Nov 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Discounts on products, time off requests, flexible schedule, benefits

Cons

Pay, must be available for major holidays, usually cannot get more than three days in a row off during "black out dates" Annual raise pretty low, hard to get into upper raise amount if you aren't interested in management in the future

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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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