Hy-Vee reviews

3.5

52% would recommend to a friend

(6,071 total reviews)

Jeremy Gosch

53% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Hy-Vee has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 6,071 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hy-Vee employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews
2.0
May 3, 2024

An Absolute Mess

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The work-from-home and hybrid options are nice

Cons

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%.

3.0
Aug 14, 2019

Hy-Vee

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work/life balance is good. When you're home, they leave you alone. Pay is acceptable. You'll get the industry standard. Time goes by very quickly as there is always something to do. Most co-workers are great to work with, with the exception of a few know-it-alls and "cliquey" backstabbers, but that's anywhere these days. Virtual autonomy. You are somewhat in charge of your own business within a business. "Employee owned."

Cons

Never enough help. Labor seems to be the biggest struggle. They'll cut hours to save money for bonus checks while work remains. No training. No direction. You will need to learn on the fly. Even a retail warrior, like myself, with years of experience in other retail fields, needed to have some on-boarding. Don't expect it. The only way you'll learn is to screw up first. Upper Managers are hit or miss. Some work hard and know the business, others would rather sit and gossip in the office all day while you're working hard on the floor wondering how they got that promotion. You will be expected to help other parts of the store, mostly checking and bagging, as they're short handed more often than not, which can set you back hours from getting your own work done, then expect your Store Director to question why something in your own Dept isn't done. Your Store Director sets the tone. Mine doles out more criticism than recognition, which creates unnecessary stress among managers. This in-turn causes employees to be stressed, which then causes unnecessary turnover. Questionable buying from corporate. You will receive too much forced-shipped, unneeded inventory that is DOA from corporate and then be told it's your fault for having too much inventory.

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