“Unoriginal copycats providing mediocre products”

Pros:  “Employee Discount on store brands, good benefits”

Cons:  “Training is terrible. Sales program is annoying and car salesman-like. Secret shopper program is ridiculously complicated and overblown.” – Full Review

“Encouraged employee”

Pros:  “Town hall meetings where we are given updates on the economy and it's effect on us, as well as the direction the company is heading. Very friendly enviornment and seems that…”

Cons:  “You have to work in an office on these beautiful south Florida days.” – Full Review

“REI is truly a special place to work”

Pros:  “The atmosphere is truly exceptional. They have really treat their people well. All of the exposure to the greatest gear is reason alone to work there. The people are caring…”

Cons:  “The pay is about medium rage... not low, but not exceptional. Some might find this a turnoff. The environment is so nice that people forget to be honest sometimes.” – Full Review

“Operations”

Pros:  “Great People to work with.”

Cons:  “Long Hours; lower than average pay” – Full Review

“Great PT job if you just want some extra money to spend, NOT for full time”

Pros:  “Pretty much what everyone else is saying: -Generous discount -Great merchandise (for the most part) -Coupons can get you really good deals if you know how to use them…”

Cons:  “-Very stressful workdays (esp. weekends) because they keep cutting hours so we are constantly understaffed and the department is on the brink of collapse…” – Full Review

“Opportunity is here”

Pros:  “Continually expanding into different markets. They promote from within. They are aggressive in the market place. They have great merchandise at affordable pricing. Always…”

Cons:  “Lack of training. Initial pay low. Benefits are expensive” – Full Review

“Not a bad place to work”

Pros:  “Pay was decent considering other big box retailers, Great group of co-workers and store management for the most part. While money is always prefered the last bonus system was…”

Cons:  “lumping more and more duties and responsiblity on yet no raise in salary cap.” – Full Review

“Fun, intense, inspiring.”

Pros:  “Energetic co-workers. Generally youthful and interesting environment. Lots of impassioned debate. Decent product.”

Cons:  “Pittsburgh - not the most exciting place to live. Sometimes too much nitpicking over tiny details, time wasted on things that are not going to impact the business…” – Full Review