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Worst Job Ever - Mechanical Engineer Outdoor Research Employee Review

1.0
7 Feb 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pro-deals, and some really great coworkers who truly care about boosting the outdoor industry.

Cons

Low wages, high-stress/dangerous work environment, ethically broken management, terrible work-life balance for an outdoors company, production workers and engineers treated terribly compared to marketing/sales/accounting, zero room for upward growth, bad business decisions made by management lead to several rounds of layoffs and anxiety across the engineering and production team. Not to mention, the ONLY diversity in the entire company comes from the Asian immigrant workers paid hourly to sew gloves for 40 hours a week. Nice.

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5.0
21 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great team of people. Generally enjoyable place to work

Cons

Slow on promotions. Seems very rare.

2.0
20 Oct 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The employee discount is really nice.

Cons

I used to think this brand was local, but they haven't been local since the 90's. Management and floor supervisor definitely uses favoritism with some employees and shuns the others. Supervisors have a lack of actual management experience. I've seen them PIP and fire employees for asinine reasons. They have made the work environment awkward and unpleasant

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