REI Reviews

Pros

Great coworkers
Believes in balanced lifestyle
Stewardship of local store's outdoor recreation areas
Pleasant and fun work environment
Nice discounts on outdoor gear

Advice to Management

Management does good job, but some staff have useful talents and could contribute better to the store more than scheduling permits.

Pros

- Great staff
- decent benefits
- Work/Life Balance
- PRO DEALS

Advice to Management

limited up words mobility.

Pros

Great CEO and management behind this company; they truly care about their employees.

Pros

REI MAKES WORK FUN.

Pros

Great company, good values, smart direction, great benefits for the consumer. They are true to their commitment to the outdoors. Opportunities to travel. Work with really amazing people. Inspiring stories. Sustainable tourism. Be a part of the most profitable part of REI.

Advice to Management

I am left disappointed in my current role. I thought it would be so much better and feel like management hasn't delivered on some promises. Reward your employees as much as we reward our members/guests. When employees who work customer facing tell you that systems are not working for them and we are hearing customer frustration, please listen. I know that it is hard to make tech changes quickly but please at least listen to us. Also, if you make promises about flexible work options, you need to deliver on those. Remember to do things to retain employees who have not yet reached certain mile markers where you start accruing more PTO. You will keep having high turnover if you do not fix some of these issues.

Pros

-hefty discount
-community outreach
-volunteer oppurtunities
-great team
-management that cares
-flexible scheduling

Pros

Great work environment. Everyone is genuinely excited to be working for a company with so much culture.

Pros

Fun work environment, customers in good mood because they are buying gear to do something fun, good benefits, after 1 year part-time excellent health insurance, yay-day (paid day off every 6 months), accrue paid vacation time and paid sick time off, black Friday always off with pay, product discounts, recent cost of living raises in addition to small yearly raise, can rise to mgmt through career path program

Advice to Management

get ideas and input for improvement/change from employees who actually perform the position, seems to be change for changes sake that do not always make sense

Pros

Awesome culture and work life balance. REI offers interested parties development. It stands for something worth working for. Awesome benefits (for full-time staff), people, and products. The Co-op model actually makes working there more meaningful.

Advice to Management

REI's management has been my best management experience. My store managers have been excellent and upper management provides solid communication and vision.

Pros

- Everyone is a good source of knowledge because they hire people that actually do outdoor stuff
- Really AWESOME employee benefits... The ProDeals are amazing
- The company itself really cares about their employees
- Customers tend to be nice
- The managers are friendly and on top of things
- Overall great environment to work in, and all of the people that come in or work there are just interesting to talk to
- Again, the benefits! Yay Day, ProDeals, Opt Outside... The list really goes on and on