Neiman Marcus Software Developer reviews

3.7

2% would recommend to a friend

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Geoffroy Van Raemdonck

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4.0
Aug 26, 2020

Advanced technology

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Pros

The IT team always follows the latest technology tends. Restructured the monolithic J2EE to microservices to reduce time to market and can adopt new technologies easily. The team uses lambda and serverless to save time and money on ops cost. Infrastructure moved to aws and utilized a lot of its services. Agile team with CI/CD devops. Back end is mostly using restful API and some GraphQL API. Used react hooks and tried micro front end at an early stage. Basically say the company's technology is very advanced and you can learn a lot working here.

Cons

IT department had some hard time to keep associates and hires a lot of contractors (i mean like 80% kind of a lot). Most contractors work here for a short amount of time then left, which caused issues for consistence and a lot of the knowledge were lost - so a lot of things need to be done again and again. Also this brings boundaries inside the org since associates and contractors work for different companies.

3.0
Jun 10, 2020

Pretty good

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Pros

work life balance is good

Cons

clueless upper mgmt is bad

2.0
Feb 9, 2019
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Pros

- Clean codebase - Honestly the people on the IT team are awesome - Very organized development cycle, although this can lead to excessive micromanagement for some teams - Good opportunities to be exposed to a lot of different technologies - Good work/life balance unless you are a contractor, then you are forced to work holidays or weekends...

Cons

- TOO MUCH POLITICS GOING ON HERE - Management sucks. Plain and simple. A certain manager has been out of development for years, yet tries to act like he's still a developer when he clearly is so far removed from the actual code and tech. You may be able to BS to the business team, but everyone on the technical side knows you're full of it. - They seem to have adapted a culture/mindset of hiring "cheap" and off-shore engineers instead of focusing on developing employees internally. - There is not much room for growth/promotions internally - Management on the IT side is honestly is so out of touch with the actual development process, yet they make all the decisions and don't listen to employee input, which in turn leads to poor execution of the business plan. - The employee discount is great, but pay is much lower than the average market rate

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