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Columbia Sportswear

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Columbia Sportswear reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(1,322 total reviews)
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Tim Boyle

66% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Columbia Sportswear has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,322 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Columbia Sportswear employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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1K reviews
3.0
Dec 11, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people and work life balance

Cons

-Pay much lower than market -Lack of career advancement opportunities, management expects you to stay in the job you were hired for with no hope of progression -Strange implications of working for a public company that is still "family run", results in skewed decision making, confusion, and politics that ultimately result in being an industry laggard -strong emphasis on cost cutting and budgets when EVERY quarter new record earnings are announced, all the profit sharing benefits go straight to executive management -extremely outdated systems, tools, and processes. Many areas of the company are still stuck in the 80s and management doesn't want to invest in better technology -all of Tim Boyle's direct reports are white males and there are very few women in senior level positions... very "boys club" mentality

2.0
Jun 25, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nice discounts, good cafeteria, did I say good cafeteria, how about nice discounts? I think this is 20 words. Food, discounts, food, discounts. Oh yeah they play volleyball too.

Cons

Backwards, hierarchical, nepotistic, too many Boyle toadies. The senior management is filled with Boyle friends, family and suck-ups. As a result there can be no new ideas. Kind of reminds me of the Kennedy cabinet which came to the joint decision that the Bay of Pigs was a good idea.

1.0
Feb 18, 2021

Not a good company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some good co-workers and job security

Cons

By far the worst company that I have ever worked for. Poor leadership, starting at the top, that has not set strategic direction or established a strategic plan, overworked employees along with retaining low performers that are not held accountable to do their job which leads to high turnover and burnout.

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