Hy-Vee Reviews

Yearly raises are consistently 2-3%. Doesn't even match cost of living. Luckily, you don't get to leave the store enough to use any of your money anyways. Inconsistent hours. I started in the company at a time where moving up meant more consistency and more benefits. Yet, every promotion was met with worse hours and less time away from the store. The store management turnover was horrendous. In my first five years I had one store manager. Over the next five years I had six. The tenured professionals in the company seemed to lose their ability to provide customer service. The employees who had been there for 5+ years typically sat behind a computer or stayed in the backroom for most of their shifts. The amount of infidelity within each store at this company is crazy. More people were let go or removed from their position due to having affairs than poor performance.

The CEO doesn't understand software engineering and how to lead an IT organization. There is no value placed on the quality of work. Instead, everything is a fire. Due to years of poor management, internal systems are brittle, don't scale, and are prone to failures. Whenever there is an issue, usually daily, engineers across teams hop in a slack channel to work through the issue. A team usually supports 100s of applications and doesn't have a firm grasp of system boundaries. Issues can take hours to solve. Management blames the culture on the individual contributors and doesn't look at the issues they have created. In one of my last meetings, the CIO said the employees caused the negative culture. The meeting was after layoffs that were handled in the worst possible fashion. If you are not a long-term employee that is part of the “it” crowd, you will quickly fall out of favor. After layoffs leaders were promoted even though they had less members on their teams.. This was done based on protecting favorites and covering up for each other. Laying off employees and promoting managers killed morale. Furthermore, the CEO stating the corporate office does nothing shows how little respect there is for knowledge workers.