Hy-Vee reviews

3.4

52% would recommend to a friend

(6,054 total reviews)

Jeremy Gosch

51% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Hy-Vee has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 6,054 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hy-Vee employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
Aug 6, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent building with an open floor plan and places to work in quiet

Cons

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.

3.0
Aug 14, 2019

Hy-Vee

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work/life balance is good. When you're home, they leave you alone. Pay is acceptable. You'll get the industry standard. Time goes by very quickly as there is always something to do. Most co-workers are great to work with, with the exception of a few know-it-alls and "cliquey" backstabbers, but that's anywhere these days. Virtual autonomy. You are somewhat in charge of your own business within a business. "Employee owned."

Cons

Never enough help. Labor seems to be the biggest struggle. They'll cut hours to save money for bonus checks while work remains. No training. No direction. You will need to learn on the fly. Even a retail warrior, like myself, with years of experience in other retail fields, needed to have some on-boarding. Don't expect it. The only way you'll learn is to screw up first. Upper Managers are hit or miss. Some work hard and know the business, others would rather sit and gossip in the office all day while you're working hard on the floor wondering how they got that promotion. You will be expected to help other parts of the store, mostly checking and bagging, as they're short handed more often than not, which can set you back hours from getting your own work done, then expect your Store Director to question why something in your own Dept isn't done. Your Store Director sets the tone. Mine doles out more criticism than recognition, which creates unnecessary stress among managers. This in-turn causes employees to be stressed, which then causes unnecessary turnover. Questionable buying from corporate. You will receive too much forced-shipped, unneeded inventory that is DOA from corporate and then be told it's your fault for having too much inventory.

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