REI reviews

Literally everything else. REI has created this mirage surrounding its incredible culture. The reality is that you will spend all of your time competing with your co-workers for hours and growth opportunities. You will be overseen by a management team that puts absolutely zero value into anything other than your ability to sell memberships. In my store we literally have a racist employee who profiles all the customers and he still gets more hours and acknowledgement from management than far more deserving employees, and it's because he sells tons of memberships. Priorities in this company are completely off the rails.

-Management is overbloated and so protective of their jobs, there's a pretty toxic culture in management -So many changes every 6 months, new values, new purpose, new mission...new technology - that's a hard pass. REI attempts to overcome its culture challenges through re-aligning values and performance evaluations instead of actually addressing the core issues - toxic, tenured managers -Corporate survey is 'blind', it really isn't. Every manager can slice it and sort through and pretty closely identify who submitted which response. Employees are forced to complete the survey, managers are rated on completed survey %'s. SO MANY MANAGERS reported to HR for bullying employees to complete the survey and complete a certain way -Pay. Needless to say, people will say the pay is low for retail HQ. Shockingly, its about 40% below market. Benefits - 5 year vest for Retirement with a 5% match AT 5 years, health insurance is crap, plan on spending substantial out of pocket even with the high-deductible programs. I was mid-level and paid less going through open insurance market than using REI's -Slow moving company, slow moving systems with opaque leadership so its managers in their fiefdoms -Employees are incentivized to turn on each other to make themselves look good -Zero HR support, active claims of toxic manager behavior (discrimination, bullying) were repeatedly ignored or the ICs were shoved out. Better to be quiet and look elsewhere quietly than speak up