Trust your Employees, Train your employees, Bring back original thoughts - Anonymous employee Trek Bicycle Employee Review

2.0
Aug 30, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The coworkers. They are the best and will work hard for you. No Drug testing too if you are into that kinda stuff

Cons

Executives cannot get out of their own way. They put their mark, opinion, and change too many things showing no trust in their employees. They change their minds and put tight timelines on those decisions making many people around the company work long hours and it leads to mental and physical stress on the themselves. There also doesn't seem to be an original thought that comes down from the CSuite anymore. Everything that is talked about is stuff that is read or heard from whatever book/podcast is the newest piece of homework. Shows a disconnect between the executives and what their departments are working on. Level 5 leadership keeps getting talked about but there are too many middle managers that don't actually know how to manage. Stop promoting the smartest person to a manager level. Managers need to manage people, not the work that people are doing. We have to many people leaving because of bad middle managers. There are no performance reviews, no direction on how you can work into a new role. Everything is put onto the employee as "you decide your future" which is a complete cop out on not helping develop your employees and give them the pay raises they deserve.

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5.0
Jun 27, 2026
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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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