REI reviews

Store employees are treated like dirt unless you are a store manager-Headquarters is cut throat and downright viscous with everyone out for themselves. Upper management is disconnected, middle management is either incompetent old guard who are only there only due to how long they've been with the company, or were imported from somewhere else and they are not in touch with the culture and core values this company claims to uphold. Way behind the curve on technology, attempts to upgrade technology are stupidly expensive, drawn out and grossly mismanaged. Company espouses values while behaving in an entirely different manner. Store hours are cut to bare bones, HQ departments do not have enough staff to do the work, while "fat cat" "Executive Vice Presidents" are promoted and given larger and larger salaries. Cruelly executed layoffs, random dissolution of departments, decreased work life balance and an increasing disrespect for employees lower morale. This is no warm fuzzy co-op, it is a cutthroat corporation (upper management brags about being the "800 pound gorilla" in the market) caring only about profit and executive bonuses.

- I was underpaid compared to my direct peers by 25% - During my four years at HQ, there were three separate sets of layoffs - Career advancement is given incredible lip service, but you have to chase it all yourself - Management has no vision or consistency