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Columbia Sportswear

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Things have gone from Bad to Unbearable - Marketing Professional Columbia Sportswear Employee Review

3.0
Aug 12, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- RTO - Decent pay (though only at a certain threshold) - Great co-workers - Employee discounts

Cons

- Senior leadership continues to hire people they like, not people who are qualified for their positions. - There is no training or accountability for senior leaders which creates poor team dynamics. - If you speak up or pushback, you're deemed difficult, uncooperative or having a bad attitude. - Largely only older white males in leadership and the lack of diversity (on all fronts) shows in the work and culture - Very limited or rare opportunities to move within the company or be promoted - The company once valued flexibility and treated people as adults, but senior leadership wants to revert to back to more days in office and being at your desk for 8 hours straight with threats of lack of compliance to this archaic system showing up on your next review cycle - Culture and values are a facade to show-off to shareholders

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5.0
Jul 9, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Positive environment, great training, pride in products and technology.

Cons

Seasonal employees get "up to 25 hours" but I have only been scheduled up to 15 hours a week.

3.0
Jul 13, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work-life balance and benefits.

Cons

What was once a pro for culture has now become a con. Uncertainty due to massive layoffs. Remote work has been largely eliminated, and thus flexibility has decreased signficantly. Offshore and AI initiatives to reduce local US workforce. Although collaboration is encouraged, departments are siloed and operate independently which causes significant inefficiencies costing the company millions of dollars. Diversity is also lacking in a number of departments. Over reliance on external consultants instead of leveraging internal expertise.

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