Great place for lifers and gaslighters - Security Engineer REI Employee Review

1.0
3 May 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Employees get a decent bonus paid annually on the company's performance

Cons

This company has Lifers who have been employed for 15 + years that have been milking this place with average performance. They are mean, deceitful, political, and do not want the company culture to change and be inclusive and welcoming for new employees and ideas. They also resist any small incremental changes to technology because they do not want to learn them.

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5.0
20 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fun time with fun employees

Cons

Schedule was tricky to coordinate

3.0
20 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Excellent coworkers - REI does a great job of hiring enthusiastic and personable staff - Slightly better pay compared with other retail in the area - Prodeals and discounts - Flexible hours - Good (although rapidly diminishing) healthcare benefits

Cons

- Once a (better) company known for its investment in knowledgeable and friendly staff via extensive training and investment, the company has been slowly slashing away at most of what makes it special since the pandemic - Hours and benefits are worsening, proper employee training is becoming hard to come by - lots of mediocrity and sometimes questionable ethical calls made by management - Punitive disciplinary policies that seem to be designed to create higher turnover (advantageous to them given the gradual pay, benefit and policy changes)

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