horrible, sweat shop, slavery, humiliation, belittling - Employee of Mobile Software Team Kohl's Employee Review

1.0
Sep 15, 2014
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Pros

Unfortunately, there is not a single pro

Cons

I have been working for Kohl's software center in Milpitas, CA for more than a year now. I must tell that after having worked for many software companies in silicon valley, this is by far the worst experience I have ever had. I work for the Mobile group. The work environment is so bad that I have also decided to file a labor complaint to the san jose dept of labor. The higher management humiliates people at every opportunity and that too publicly. Higher Management often says that you should work 24/7 and be available anytime on call. Part of the management who sits in Milwaukee, calls team members any time of day or night and threatens them to work. Management calls more during weekends and asks employees to work and stop doing any personal things. All people regularly work more than 60 hours a week and those who don't toe the line are threatened of dire consequences. Many have been fired for this reason. People get phone calls on their personal mobile all the time and late nights. Management from Milwaukee texts team members every now and then and asks status of bugs and issues at odd times (mostly after work in evenings and weekends). Management pressures people to come on phone calls on weekends at 6am. yes you read it right, 6 in the morning on saturdays and sundays. There is no extra pay or comp off given to full time and no overtime is given to contract workers. The senior management encourages this behavior and the atmosphere is so toxic that people dodge responsibility and put blame on each other. Recently, the company conducted and internal anonymous feedback. Most of the employees of mobile software team gave negative feedback about the management. After the results were released, the senior management openly threatened people who wrote negative feedback about them. The HR decided to organize a half day picnic for people to cool the atmosphere after a very bad feedback. The senior management asked everybody to work in evening and late night after the picnic from home to make up for the time wasted in picnic !

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Pros

flexible work schedule great coworkers location is very continent

Cons

store hours change every few years you can be moved a lot in one day (bothered others not me) certain customers WILL recognize you as the "lady who would not honor kohl s cash from 5 years ago"

3.0
Jun 29, 2026
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Pros

managers can be friendly at times

Cons

Little to no training been working here for almost a year now there’s still something I don’t know every day. What was most difficult for me was being at registers as I was trained in two days by shadowing someone. There are so many situations and problems that will come up every day and you will learn something new! They never taught me about Kohl’s cash, how to read receipts, reprint or edit receipts. They schedule so little so when you do learn something there’s no chance of rehearsal because you come in three weeks later working at a different department.

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