Hy-Vee reviews

Yearly raises are consistently 2-3%. Doesn't even match cost of living. Luckily, you don't get to leave the store enough to use any of your money anyways. Inconsistent hours. I started in the company at a time where moving up meant more consistency and more benefits. Yet, every promotion was met with worse hours and less time away from the store. The store management turnover was horrendous. In my first five years I had one store manager. Over the next five years I had six. The tenured professionals in the company seemed to lose their ability to provide customer service. The employees who had been there for 5+ years typically sat behind a computer or stayed in the backroom for most of their shifts. The amount of infidelity within each store at this company is crazy. More people were let go or removed from their position due to having affairs than poor performance.

Messy Codebase: Nobody seems to know how anything works, or what anything does. Many critical applications have been written long ago by people that are no longer employed by Hy-Vee. There is not much in the way of coding standards or useful documentation. Changes that should take minutes take hours, days, or even weeks because of the mountain of process, research, and paperwork required to get anything done. Lack of Work/Life balance: Management doesn't mind requiring team members to work into the night or over the weekend. I understand it is sometimes necessary to work extra hours to meet deadlines, not ideal but it happens. This is worse than that. Sometimes meetings are scheduled early in the morning, sometimes teams are required to do things over a weekend that could easily be done during normal working hours. Additionally, many teams are required to participate in an on-call rotation. This was not mentioned during the interview process. Quarterly Bonus The bonuses are a joke. All four added together amount to about 1-2%.