Trek Bicycle reviews

3.1

50% would recommend to a friend

(872 total reviews)
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John Burke

45% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Trek Bicycle has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 872 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Trek Bicycle 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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872 reviews
2.0
Jan 11, 2018

It could work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There are still departments that have that initial startup attitude.

Cons

The shiny outside cover is a front for the political backstabbing. If you are old, management will look to get rid of you, especially in manufacturing. Trek is trying to act like a marketing company, but they are a bike company. They are too focused on being a cool young company to recognize that they are sacrificing cycling industry knowlege for trying to be young and hip. Also, there is no sense of community for the people of Waterloo or Madison or their manufacture employee. Their priorities are their private investors and their white-collar employees. Their manufacturing employees give off a feeling that the older they get, the more likely they are to be laid off to save money. Trek's management has no loyalty to their manufacturing people. Their composites technology is stuck in the 90's and is not advancing. Look to Germany for leading-edge bike composite technology.

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Trek Bicycle Response
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Thank you for the review. We are sorry to hear that there was a disconnect between mfg and the rest of the company. We have been working hard to make sure there is more connection across the entire company, including adjusting events to days off to align so all can attend events as a company.
3.0
Apr 13, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It is exciting to work in the cycling industry with a company such as Trek. The products that they develop are top notch and you can truly get behind them. They treat their customers really well and go the extra mile to make things right with them. The people who you work with, for the most part, are a great bunch to work with. They truly made you feel part of something bigger and that made you try harder. The fitness and health focus was also something very positive, as well as the casual culture and environment. The discount was very enticing and the area where the offices are situated are perfect for riding your bicycle when you had time. The biggest pro though, is the people who you work with and end up befriending.

Cons

The biggest negative, as many others have mentioned, is the level of compensation for the expectations put forth by management. No matter how hard or successful you were in meeting and beating stated goals, all you received was a very minimal (below cost of living) pay raise and more responsibility. It was very disheartening to hear the CEO say that it was the most profitable year in sales, that we hit the 1 billion dollar mark, and see budgets, salaries, staff, and perks slashed. Communication between management and the rest is not the greatest. Every year in surveys this topic would come up and management tries to rectify the issue without actually communicating what is going on. In the end that felt disingenuous and demotivated many people, in which case the CEO would turn around and tell people to leave if they didn't like it, since it's their fault for feeling like they are not getting the support needed. Management expects you to live and breathe your job, which would be fine if you were compensated as such. The place used to have a better culture, but with the high turnover and low morale that is happening, it feels as though it is slowly eroding what made it a great place to work.

3.0
May 20, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good group of people to work with Casual office environment Office perks, including onsite massage, fitness center, cafe Cool products and great employee deals

Cons

Noncompetitive salaries Ineffective upper management Poor communication Poor HR department

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