The Worst IT Has To Offer... - Engineer Costco Wholesale Employee Review

1.0
Nov 5, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Free Costco executive membership card. -A job until you die at your desk and they notice your rotting corpse a month later.

Cons

Feckless lower management filled with silver-badged status-quoers. Over-filled middle management consumed with maintaining their fiefdoms. Rudderless upper management. Corporate employees (1000+) treated as an afterthought compared to warehouse employees. For example, company 'employee manual' solely tailored to warehouse employees. Employee welcome videos tailored to warehouse employees. Most company videos/communication tailored to warehouse employees. Strict core hours of 9am-3pm. No work from home. Non-negotiable two week vacation at time of hire. Nearly non-existent yearly raises / COLA bumps. Hourly warehouse employees get bonuses (after so many years), management gets bonuses. Salaried professionals? No bonus, ever. Management pushes laughable excuses of job security for a 20% lower pay rate than any other comparable job in the area and horrible benefits/extras. Toxic work culture of depressed resignation. Office itself is gloomy and feels like a library. People openly discussing how horrible the IT department is and searching and sharing external job openings. Employees rewarded for keeping their heads down and not being noticed. Management loves throwing millions at vendors and contractors while ignoring internal talent. Employee surveys have been getting worse every year, yet suggestions are ignored or paid lip service to in a single slide at the end of year company overview. Zero direction provided by upper and middle IT management that mostly came from warehouses and non-technical positions. Zero overall direction and strategy from upper management.

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Pros

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Cons

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