Michaels Software Developer reviews

3.1

85% would recommend to a friend

(37 total reviews)

David Boone

100% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Michaels with 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 37 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Michaels is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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37 reviews
1.0
May 12, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Despite being incredibly incompetent, they managed to hire some really smart and amazing people to work with.

Cons

Oh gosh. So much is terrible. Everyone's leaving, unless leadership is able to burn them out to prevent them from interviewing. Let's encapsulate everything in one anecdote. The CIO got his old CEO friend to hire him, started butting in to every decision just to leave his mark, then promised to rewrite the website all by himself in one month. After one month, he gave up and instead got permission to hire 200 people. He gave them what he'd "worked on": an Excel file of some database tables for a Point of Sale system that he blatantly plagiarized from the public API Javadoc of another POS software product. The tables had 2 columns: name and description. But description was a copy of the name, without the underscores. When asked what some fields were for, he said he didn't know and also mentioned that he wrote most of it while drinking whiskey. His original ridiculous deadline remained unchanged, the devs had to start before the UI designs were done, he brought in a shadow UI team to polish and rewrite the UI, demanded a UI rewrite anyway 2 weeks before it was due, all just to have something to show his CEO friend over lunch. Then they threw it out and started over 2 weeks after the deadline. It didn't get any better to work there, afterwards.

4.0
Apr 16, 2021

Engineer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good salary and nice teammates

Cons

Deadline and leadership is not friendly

1.0
Apr 5, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Most of the engineers here are smart. You could learn a lot from them. 2. You could learn a lot given that you have to wear so many hats. 3. You got a lot of say on the tech stack you’re using, cause the management don’t care about tech.

Cons

1. CIO is an absolute dictator on how every single product should look or feel. He pretty much micro-managed every team and thought everyone was stupid other than himself. 2. All the existing managers are bootlickers to the CIO. Whoever dare to say no to the CIO either left the company or being isolated from touching any projects. 3. Some of the tech managers don’t even understand the technology needed to build the product. All they will ask is - can you do it and how fast can you get it done? When it comes to meeting, due to not knowing the tech, they sometimes throw you under the bus because they want to make sure their job is secure. 4. No process, no test and no documentation. You’re on your own if you don’t make friends. 5. Things change everyday. There is no set requirement whatsoever. All your hard work is nothing if the CIO doesn’t like it. 6. If they bring up a new requirement today, they expect you to finish it tomorrow. Deadline? There is no deadline, cause you’re supposed to work 24*7. 7. Extremely stressful work atmosphere all the time. CIO will openly embarrass you if you are a nay sayer.

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