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Nov 16, 2024
Recommend
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Pros
The individual contributors that remain are good people looking for good leadership. Discounts on outdoor gear are a nice perk.
Cons
Leadership has created a toxic workplace with poor communication, layoffs, outsourcing, and lofty goals without proper roadmaps. A direct result of these leadership choices have led to employee apathy and brain drain as REI continues to lose valuable talent. Rather than ask “how can we improve and meet our customers needs?”, the mindset is “how can we cut costs and keep the experience the same or acceptably degraded for less money”