West Marine Environment Employee Reviews | Comparably
At West Marine, our goal is to make your boating more fun. Along with offering a huge selection of boating gear and services. read more
EMPLOYEE
PARTICIPANTS
200
TOTAL
RATINGS
1765

West Marine Environment Employee Reviews

What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?

The people i work with and my manager

I don't have anything to say about that

The team spirit: being able to call upon the staff expertise in the field for specific questions, being treated with respect, and sharing the load.

Review from Sales Dept

At the store level, we're trusted to be professional and do what needs to get done.

You meet some nice people and co workers along the way

Review from Sales Dept

The assistant manager Andy is better than Jason.

Nice customers. Complaining of no stock on shelves, the quality is poor, and the managers do not know how to manage. Customer complaints. Very sad.

Again the people in store I work with and customers.

As i've said im part time employee and i'm not in the building very long each day i enjoy working with the store salesmen cashiers and support staff everyone is friendly

The customers because they’re always patient with our slow registers and our funky card readers that decline cards making it take way longer to get out the store when there’s limited time to enjoy our boat in Michi

Review from Sales Dept

The employees are clean an hard working

Review from Sales Dept

The people I work with and great attitudes.

Review from Sales Dept

We share experiences with customers to help fulfill their needs and sell more merchandise

They are friendly to costumers and not noisy.

I like how everyone was kind but not noisy

fun water sports, usually fun people, fun products

Review from Sales Dept

the friendships and bonds created

Review from Sales Dept

We love coming to work everyday. Our people share our passions.

The environment is very confortable and fast paced everyone is organized

Enthusiasm for promoting the boating life

What needs to change to make the company culture better?

Hire better district-level managers that have leadership capabilities

hire competent workers and be respectful

The gossip from management about other employees needs to stop. The cattiness and unprofessional attitude from management needs to be dealt with.

More offices, less open environment, more privacy and personal space in general

Review Sentiment at West Marine

72
72%
28
28%

About West Marine's Environment

C
66/100

Where This Score Ranks West Marine's Environment

BOTTOM
40%

In the Bottom 40% of 2025 similar size companies on Comparably

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Not enough ratings to compare against companies in Salinas, CA

2nd

2nd place versus 4 competitors rated on Comparably

The environment at West Marine is considered positive by 58% of employees and regarded as having a “comfortably fast” work pace by 25 employees. West Marine ranks in the Bottom 40% of 2025 similar sized companies (1,001-5,000 Employees) on Comparably.

Rate Environment the Highest

  • Experience - 3 to 6 Years
    +23%
  • Ethnicity - African American/Black
    +21%
  • Department - Sales
    +6%

Rate Environment the Lowest

  • Experience - Over 10 Years
    -11%
  • Ethnicity - Caucasian
    -1%

How West Marine's Environment Score is Calculated

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Results from 70 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

AnswerPercent
7 or less34%
841%
1014%
121%
More than 1210%
On average, how many hours do you work a day?
AnswerPercent
Extremely fast24%
Comfortably fast36%
Moderate21%
A bit slow13%
Bureaucratic6%
What's the work pace at your company?
AnswerPercent
Positive58%
Negative42%
Is your work environment positive or negative?
AnswerPercent
Yes83%
No17%
Does someone you work with closely, make you want to quit your job?
AnswerPercent
Yes50%
No50%
Do you have a close friend at work?
AnswerPercent
5% or Less17%
5-10%17%
10-25%33%
25-50%17%
50%+16%
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