Great place to work - Senior Software Engineer REI Employee Review

5.0
Aug 4, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

REI is the best place I have worked. I enjoyed the people, the company culture and of course the incredible discounts on outdoor gear. The company believes in it's people and works hard to maintain work/life balance. One example of the many great experiences I had was our team meeting, a snow shoeing trip up a mountain.

Cons

The company is going through some changes so it is losing that small company feel and replacing it with a more corporate culture. Still, it is far better than many other places I have worked.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jun 20, 2026
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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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