Michaels Software Developer reviews

- Horrible WLB - They hired a bunch of engineers in China to take advantage of their 996 culture (working from 9 am to 9 pm 6 days a week) and cheap labor. This culture is taking over the technology department at Michaels. - Ridiculous deadlines with ambiguous requests. After each deadline upper management promised that the WLB would be better and processes would be put into place, but they were all lies. - No such thing as being on a team with a manager, product manager and a few engineers using Agile methodologies. You are just thrown at a project and told to code. - Upper management does not understand the importance of proper planning and architecting solutions before implementation. It is all about getting things done as quickly as possible so that upper management can look good and deliver on promises they made to demo the product. - Daily meetings to demo our work and progress to upper management and the CIO. The level of micro-management is insane. There were some weeks where we had to be on a zoom call all day while working so upper management could "see progress".

No leadership in Technology. CIO is highly technical but degrading to the employees, he lacks leadership skills and new leadership is questionable. Bringing in immature leadership resources who also do not know how to lead. CIO is allowed to behave this way because the CEO brought him in to the company and protects him. HR can't even do anything to resolve the issue. Questionable action from CIO and China involvement. Building a tool without any business involvement and requirements. It may look nice but behind the screen there isn't quality. CIO won't admit to mistake of hiring so many young and inexperienced developers and managers so now he is moving work to China. Stay away until the CIO and CEO are no longer with the company.