Great benefits, extremely poor management and no room for growth - Anonymous employee Columbia Sportswear Employee Review

2.0
31 Dec 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are decent; health care, PTO, and company perks are all very good and the sole reason I have stayed so long. Product is solid and brand still holds up well on a resume.

Cons

One of the most toxic workplace cultures I have worked for. Upper management makes promises it cannot keep and employs a "bulk order" strategy for its employees i.e. hire plenty of contract workers, pay them below industry standard and dangle the hope of full time promotion as a way to work more than 40 hours a week. Management will keep you in your role until you burnout and I have watched top talent go to waste as employees wait years just for a chance to get over to HQ but ultimately quit as management has a philosophy of "we can always hire more". There is zero opportunity for self development in my current department and I was a fool for not listening to the reviews mentioning "being stuck" when I first began my job search. Treat this as a job and nothing more, otherwise you will be disappointed. The benefits will only go so far and I would not spend more than 2 years with this company; 1 was a stretch to begin with.

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