Dream Job but.... - Bicycle Technician Trek Bicycle Employee Review

3.0
Dec 10, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice work environment, plenty of skilled jobs, and people seemed nice. I was there before they bought the land to let their employees ride on. Sounds like a nice place to work yet. Still making good high end bikes.

Cons

When people tell you at a young age that you should find a job in a field you love. They forget that not everyone wants to be in a position of upper management, or want a desk job. From what I seen working there and the reviews on here, they don't play a living wage. Most people l know that have finally found their dream job in life, are only enjoying it because they are in a double income family and their significant others makes much more money than them. Companies like this do not care about the very employees that make them great. I left building bikes for a living, to build farm equipment for a living, buy when the dairy farm industry died l was left with no good paying jobs in these small towns. Still in the area after trying several companies out and haven't even come close to how well l was payed and treat in the farm industry. Still making now what l made in 1998.

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5.0
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Recommend
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Pros

Great culture, decent work like balance

Cons

No room for growth, bike industry is going down hill

1.0
Feb 1, 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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