REI Systems Reviews

Current Employee – been working at REI Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – REI is a gem along the beltway. I have worked at a number of different tech companies in the area and few can match this place. The grants work we do is incredibly impactful and it's typical to work very flexible hours - which is great for me and my family. I also enjoy the team I work - very friendly and reliable - along with the benefits of bagels, ping pong and Xboxes in the game room.

Cons – The company is growing pretty fast and it is hard to know folks outside of your team. More should be done at the company or project team level.

Advice to Senior Management – Have more company events. Get more employees involved in corporate initiatives and not rely on a handful of people to lead every club and program.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at REI Systems

Pros – Good Team, Culture, Flexible timings, no micro management

Cons – Routine Work, Not exciting work.

Former Employee – worked at REI Systems full-time for less than a year

Pros – Company has long term contracts and has been in business for a long time. Employees are friendly and easy to work with.

Cons – There is a lot of favoritism in the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't talk to leads to get honest feedback. You will get feedback from employees not leads.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at REI Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – cool environment to work. Flexible in work schedule.

Cons – 60 hours of work week... Very disorganized teams.,,, team members are not cooperative and the manager doesn't care about the togetherness of the team.... just happy as long as the task is done....

Advice to Senior Management – Recognize the talent and not the number of years on paper

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at REI Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – Very friendly team members, supportive and understanding.

Cons – 1. Inexperienced management. Bad planning, no value for people and hard work. Moreover, they make developers to pay for their own errors. They make you feel misarable and always judge you.
2. A lot of overtime.
3. A lot of actions against the labor law. Follow them or will be laid of. If you do not want to work overtime, you are not good team player.
4. Nothing really interesting from technology side.
5. They promote only people who they like, not who deserves promotion.
I quit. Back to US.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at REI Systems full-time for less than a year

Pros – Nice facility with some very knowledgeable technical team members who are helpful. You can learn a lot while you are here. Very hands on.

Cons – Their salaries are well below industry average. I head people left got raises of 20K + in other companies when they left. I experienced this myself when I left the company. There are fewer americans and the companies has a lot of bound labor on visas.

Advice to Senior Management – You have little idea how your managers treat employees

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at REI Systems full-time for less than a year

Pros – The company has some good contracts. Senior management of the company is good and cares about the company. The facility is also nice.

Cons – There is a lot of favoritism in the company. Be prepared for long working hours. Its a sweatshop. There is no process or order. Everything is emergency. Managers are non social and least interested in the employees. They get stressed very easily and then stress the hell out of everybody. They work like dictators.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at REI Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – Fast paced environment, friendly colleagues, fair benefits. The top executives care about the employees but lately there has been a disconnect.

Cons – lack of planning, unrealistic and uneven task assignments, too much work, stress. Sometimes feel like learning nothing new and working exactly same things.
Managers see-saw between being caring to mean and are overly focused on budget without focusing on proper planning and work allocation and lack the ability to motivate and utilize resources.
Technology is outdated and people who claim to know newer technologies seldom do.
Employees expected to work late nights and weekends frequently.

Advice to Senior Management – Growing sense of insecurity distrust in some employees needs to be addressed, now. Too much negative micro management. Need to encourage employees to learn newer technologies. Work life balance needs to be improved.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at REI Systems as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Everyone I encountered at REI was interested in the job and eager to learn.

Cons – Developers were all new to the technologies they were marketed as being experts in.

Advice to Senior Management – Contribute more to the open source technologies that your developers are using.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at REI Systems

Pros – - Dynamic work environment
- opportunities for growth
- flexible work scheedule

Cons – - Family life suffers with hectic schedules
- often forced work overtime due to bad planning and estimation of projects
- lower salaries compared to other companies for the same position.

Advice to Senior Management – - Need to ensure PMs better estimate projects to prevent late nights and weekend work
- Need to pay competitive salaries else at the slightest opportunity, your resources would leave.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend