Michaels reviews

The corporate culture is ridiculous. It's especially toxic in the Technology area. No focus on employee engagement or morale. CIO is a complete jerk...believes that taking vacation shows that you're expendable. When asked by one of his leaders if it was ok to do some team building events, he replied "we have great air in the office and we provide free water...that's all they need". Even without him, the CEO is the one who enabled his toxic behavior and turned a blind eye to massive amounts of employees leaving the company because they're so unhappy. I do not recommend working there at all. Left for a better job at another company and my friends who still work there are still miserable.

Leadership, there isn't any, the CIO puts his nose in every meeting just so he can belittle the team and talk about himself. We worked 2 years on projects (nothing has been released) without a roadmap, product managers, project managers... No plans, just copy the competition! We have redesigned everything at least 4 times, then it goes to China, where the CIO has his own design team and they change your designs! Or worse, the designs are done in China, and we have to go back over them and fix them! Our director stood up to the CIO, he tried to fight for us, he tried to create a UX growth path, then the CIO took the team away from him! So here at Michaels, you have no UX growth path, no way to get promoted. The team was 42 people last year, there are 8 left! It is toxic to designers, the CIO tells you what to design! He also said that UX's only growth is to become a PM.