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    REI Reviews

    Updated April 20, 2018
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    REI President and CEO Jerry Stritzke
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    Pros

    • I love the companies values and how they keep a work life balance for their employees (in 133 reviews)

    • Great work/life balance, employee focused company, great discounts on gear, overall positive culture (in 55 reviews)

    Cons

    • Its just an internal marketing scheme to make it look like the actually care about your work-life balance (in 37 reviews)

    • retail part time trap can be a dead end (in 93 reviews)

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    1. Featured Review

      Helpful (1)

      "Great Place to Work"

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Customer Service and Banker
      Current Employee - Customer Service and Banker
      Recommends

      I have been working at REI part-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Its great to work in a place with high values, respect and kindness from the whole team of employees and management. If you work hard and are actually interested in the company and what it stands for, you will go far. but if you treat it like a job at a fast food joint, then you won't get full time. They are great about giving you the hours and schedule you want if you work hard and take pride in your work.

      Cons

      Its still retail so you deal with ridiculous people that come in.

      Advice to Management

      Each management team is different. My management team is amazing and they truly live out REI's core values.

    2. Helpful (1)

      "Great Place to Work at"

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      Former Employee - Customer Service in Hingham, MA
      Former Employee - Customer Service in Hingham, MA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at REI part-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Friendly staff and friendly customers

      Cons

      They didn't increase my pay after minimum wage increased so I had been there for years and my yearly raises put me at equal pay to new hires

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    3. "Great company to work for"

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Sales Specialist
      Current Employee - Sales Specialist
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at REI part-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      REI treats their employees very well

      Cons

      Hours can be hard to come by

    4. "Fun Company!"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at REI part-time

      Pros

      Fun Company to work for! Lots of outing and perks.

      Cons

      Hours vary greatly and not always guaranteed.

      Advice to Management

      No more running the store on a skeleton crew during off seasons.

    5. "Great workplace"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at REI part-time

      Pros

      The work place is laid back, and employees create a great atmosphere.

      Cons

      Very specific type of person gets hired here. If you do not fit the mold of the 'outdoors' type, you may not have the same opportunities in job type that others will have.

    6. "REI breakdown"

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Sales Specialist
      Current Employee - Sales Specialist
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at REI part-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Great environment. Flexible hours. Awesome benefits.

      Cons

      Short-term job unless you desire to be in retail and want to move up or willing to work multiple part times in your life.

      Advice to Management

      Fairness

    7. "sales associate"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      fun co workers, mostly laid back, good deals

      Cons

      retail part time trap can be a dead end

    8. "Customer Service"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      I worked at REI part-time

      Pros

      Great people, fun atmosphere, great discount

      Cons

      Working holidays occasionally, on your feet the whole shift

    9. "Loved It"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at REI part-time

      Pros

      Great pay, great community, great benefits

      Cons

      Pretty bad hours, night shifts

      Advice to Management

      Pay maybe a little more and go to full time employee sales associates

    10. "Camping specialist"

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      • Senior Management
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at REI part-time

      Pros

      Around people that love the out doors all the time,
      They spend time choosing some one who knows there stuff,
      Get to hear about awesome new places to check out
      Gear rack, they have free rentals
      50% off REI gear, and 30% off other name brands
      pluse mega pro deals through out the year

      Cons

      I think they pretend to give away way more than they do.
      And I had been lead to believe that the CEO was making 100,000 a year because of his commitment, to helping the outdoors, and he is a millionaire.
      They have a rule that, if you are late 4 or 5 times in one year (I forgot which) this includes all your sick days, then after those tardies and sick days, they can choose whether they are going to let you go for not being a responsible employee

      Advice to Management

      I think that R.E.I is so big, and makes such a big profit that they should be helping fight in the fight to raise the US minimum wage. There are many companies that are starting to pay a starting wage of $12 per hour, I just think that a name like REI that starts doing something like that could show people (and I'm sorry its important but people with money) that common everyday workers deserves $12/hr and even then, it would still be difficult to pay for all the bills but its at least getting closer to what is necessary these days. I think it could help educate the public a bit more on both community, and treating each other right. I also think its an excellent way to both promote the store, get more memberships

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