Nice people but problematic company - Anonymous employee Carhartt Employee Review

1.0
Nov 2, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You can wear t-shirts to work. Parking at the 5800 office is good, and there is a ping-pong table. You get your own cube.

Cons

eCommerce group offers lousy pay - you'll find better pay elsewhere. Further, they outsource a lot of software development so programmers, and developers, be warned, your job is likely to be outsourced. Or at least the easy work - you get to fix all the bugs. They just wont hire enough people. Really understaffed. The goal seems to be to under-staff.

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Cons

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