Great bunch of people - wish I could say that about compensation - Team Player Trek Bicycle Employee Review

3.0
13 Apr 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It is exciting to work in the cycling industry with a company such as Trek. The products that they develop are top notch and you can truly get behind them. They treat their customers really well and go the extra mile to make things right with them. The people who you work with, for the most part, are a great bunch to work with. They truly made you feel part of something bigger and that made you try harder. The fitness and health focus was also something very positive, as well as the casual culture and environment. The discount was very enticing and the area where the offices are situated are perfect for riding your bicycle when you had time. The biggest pro though, is the people who you work with and end up befriending.

Cons

The biggest negative, as many others have mentioned, is the level of compensation for the expectations put forth by management. No matter how hard or successful you were in meeting and beating stated goals, all you received was a very minimal (below cost of living) pay raise and more responsibility. It was very disheartening to hear the CEO say that it was the most profitable year in sales, that we hit the 1 billion dollar mark, and see budgets, salaries, staff, and perks slashed. Communication between management and the rest is not the greatest. Every year in surveys this topic would come up and management tries to rectify the issue without actually communicating what is going on. In the end that felt disingenuous and demotivated many people, in which case the CEO would turn around and tell people to leave if they didn't like it, since it's their fault for feeling like they are not getting the support needed. Management expects you to live and breathe your job, which would be fine if you were compensated as such. The place used to have a better culture, but with the high turnover and low morale that is happening, it feels as though it is slowly eroding what made it a great place to work.

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Pros

Great culture, decent work like balance

Cons

No room for growth, bike industry is going down hill

1.0
1 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The people you work with are awesome. If you don't make some lifelong friends here, you're probably doing something wrong.

Cons

A few years ago, there was a change at TREK. It didn't happen quickly, but the culture started to change as the industry started to return to pre-covid business. Many of the people that helped shape TREK's amazing culture started to leave. Those that stayed endure brutal layoffs and report to people that now exist in their positions only for their own self-interest. You have to understand that TREK was not a company that many people used to leave. The direction of the company feels uncertain. Leadership seems to care little about retaining long term employees. They have let so many people go in different fields that a lot of day-to-day operations seem to slow down. Purchasing customers also led to a major shift in how the company runs today. It's much less calculated, and directional changes in how the company operates seem to happen with no notice and with poor planning. TREK will eventually find it's path forward, but it's doing so at a steep cost - the loss of dedicated and loyal employees that were there for the mission and future of the company. They brought integrity, (real) brutal honesty and vision for what the company could be. The only thing keeping TREK in it's market leading position today is simply how poorly the rest of the cycling industry is doing right now.

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