Trek props up the therapy industry. - Anonymous employee Trek Bicycle Employee Review

1.0
19 Nov 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company can give you the best feeling in the world, departing.

Cons

Management is very, very toxic and an old boys club. If management is reading this, look back at photos from previous years and assess your staff turnover who is not management. It is an obvious indictment that something is very wrong within your company. There is a huge culture of favouritism. People who are internally promoted are part of this old boys club. The cream does not rise at Trek, the turds float. Product is poor, even the product managers have described the goods they specify in as "Jesus, we make some ship" after another product failure of the goods they manage. Trek management provides annual bullying after the "great places to work survey" which they pride themselves on. The only reason they get a pass on this test is because everyone is exhausted from the bulling, accusations and trauma from the year before. As examples, a senior HR employee has directly told the team I worked in that our opinions (which were all the same) were all wrong. My direct manager would pull me aside to try to nail a quote to me. Ultimately, you have to be a very arrogant human who works on the margins of legality to do well at Trek. Once you leave, you still want to write about the experience years later.

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Pros

Great culture, decent work like balance

Cons

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1.0
1 Feb 2026
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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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