It WAS great. Until it tanked. - Associate Software Engineer JCPenney Employee Review

3.0
Jul 4, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

It was a great company to work for. I was there almost 10 years. Pay was average, but it was stable, a good overall culture. Advancement was very possible and achievable. The discount was great. Up until the former Apple VP came in as CEO, it was easily 5 stars and I would still be there today.

Cons

Once everything went downhill and they brought in a former Apple executive as CEO, it went far downhill. My job was (as well as thousands of others were) eliminated and outsourced to India. I never would have imagined that one person could come in and cause such catastrophic disaster to a company like he did. And he STILL walked away a multimillionaire.

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