Rep Fitness Reviews

3.4

62% would recommend to a friend

(27 total reviews)

57% positive business outlook

Rep Fitness has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 27 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Rep Fitness employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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27 reviews
2.0
10 May 2023

Do not recommend

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Snacks in the breakroom - Employee gym

Cons

- Amenability is rewarded above performance - The management at this company is terrible This is a toxic work culture. The turnover is very high, even among the leadership, and the members that have lasted longer than 1-2 years with the company are now so entrenched in their positions that the company cannot grow beyond what the ego of those members will allow. This is not a place to go to build a career. The company relies on it's industry to be a "fun" place to work, but is unwilling to assist employee career growth and development. Feedback is not accepted by leadership (to include the owners/CEOs) and they are wholly out of touch with the individuals responsible for doing the work. The majority of the leadership have not held management positions before, and have been grandfathered in based on seniority from a time when the company was much smaller. As a result, there are a lot of insecurities in their positions, and they repeatedly ignore/dismiss feedback - to the point of isolating and retaliating against their employees.

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Rep Fitness Response
2y
Thank you for the feedback. To respond to a few points: 1) With regard to turnover, we've actually never had an engineer quit, and only let go of one because of performance and interpersonal issues. Presumably this person. 2) The comments on career growth are surprising. We have many employees who have moved from entry-level roles to other, more advanced roles within the org in just a few years. Within engineering, we've had multiple team members move from Engineer 1 to 2 within the past year alone. In addition, as a rapidly growing company, many junior engineers are able to work on projects from start to finish with complete ownership of the results, rather than as a cog in a machine of a larger organization. This allows great opportunity to work on products that they might otherwise only have a small part in at other organizations, and is great for career growth. We also encourage travel to our factory locations overseas to directly oversee alpha/beta samples and making fast tweaks to perfect their work. For education, there is a budget for each department specifically assigned for education. We've had a number of engineers recently take a six sigma certification series. 3) The lack of career growth opportunities is contradicted in their own statement: "The majority of the leadership have not held management positions before, and have been grandfathered in..." So, that shows that we have indeed promoted from within, and in fact have a strong preference to do so. There is no "grandfathered in" either. Employees in a leadership position have been promoted to that role. We have plenty of people in the organization who have been with us for many years who are not in leadership roles, so reaching that position is not a given. In full transparency, when we hire from within, this does lead to involuntary turnover if and when those employees are not able to grow with the organization. This is a normal occurrence in any rapidly growing company. But if you're the type that wants the opportunity, would you rather try and fail, or never have the opportunity to try? We always look for giving people the option to try, and hopefully providing them the tools to succeed.
1.0
7 Oct 2021

Do Not Work Here

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Coworkers are incredible WFH policy is flexible Employee gym

Cons

There is constant confusion company-wide regarding management and what their actual roles are/what projects they are contributing to, other than micro-managing their employees. Leadership encourages employees to voice their opinions and speak up, but don't actually listen to employees when they do so. They just threaten to write them up when they do, or become incredibly passive aggressive. They preach an appreciation for A-team players and the need for those employees, but don't do anything to keep those employees around. You may as well just do the bare minimum, because there is no benefit to being an A-player, just quicker burnout. The same issues arise over and over again, even when proactively brought up by employees which creates a high level of frustration for people who have to clean up the mess created by the issue. Communication is terrible across departments and even worse within departments. Leadership plays favorites and makes no attempt to get to know their employees. COVID precautions are not handled properly and there were many instances where employees were not notified of COVID cases even occurring at REP. CS team lost 16 people YTD - all the extra work piled up on key players with no "thank you" or appreciation. Very little diversity and small amount of women in leadership roles.

1.0
14 Aug 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Laid back to an extent. Sometimes offer lunch..

Cons

No communication. No one knows who does what. Trying to "restructure" but it's a secret. Chain of command only works one way. Consistent quality control problems that warehouse has to fix. Constantly loosing accounts with Amazon. Over order inventory which warehouse does not have space. Constantly over packing warehouse. SKUs are always messed up (multiple SKUs for 1 item) "Restructure" has given titles to those that may not deserve them. Over inflated egos, catch on wrong day..watch out. Broken promises. Not valued as an employee. No training. Want family business atmosphere but not anywhere close.

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