REI reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(4,370 total reviews)
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38% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

REI has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 4,370 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The REI employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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5.0
Feb 10, 2014

Great place to work

Recommend
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Pros

Great community everyone very nice to me. Always go outside with friends from work. good deals on products. yay

Cons

low pay. not much in terms of career advancement. Can be a little under stimulating at times. Customers can be rude.

3.0
Feb 7, 2014

Comfortably numb is how I spent much of my 20 years with this company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Fantastic people to work with, company that promotes very strong values and lives them through the business.

Cons

Lack of decisive leadership, very slow to adopt change and take the best ideas from new employees and incorporate, compensation is average and tiresome, slow career path due to lack of movement in management, poor accountability structure

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