The Mine reviews

AFTER all of the IT Dept at ATG Stores became Lowes Employees, month after month, slowly but surely Lowes people from Lowes Headquarters began either directly replacing upper management positions (rather than promoting senior level ATG people) and people who had been integral in the growth and success of ATG for the prior 10-15+ years before Lowes acquired it were laid off some other Lowes Headquarters people could be promoted (at least thats how it looked). More cons after Lowes Acquisition: - Major Levels of Bureaucracy and heaps of red tape became the norm for a Software Developer doing ANYTHING in the code; this went along with making ATG fall in line with the Lowes Development standards, which didn't seem to work that well. - ATG Stores company culture was slowly but surely suffocated by new Lowes managers stepping on everything (and accelerated the death of our culture after many really GREAT and PROMISING developers/QA people were laid off, myself included) - A Lowes manager who took over a few weeks earlier, decided without actually providing any evidence of said issue that my "skills were not up to the level that Lowes required", however, I was never given a software development aptitude test, my code was not reviewed by this manager and my Lead was deliberately kept OUT OF THE LOOP so they couldn't help clarify my skills... and I can only guess he *thought* he knew what my skills were by looking at my old crusty resume ATG Stores had on file from years before. Had he taken the time to test my skills or gosh even *RE-INTERVIEW ME FOR THE SAME POSITION* I am sure I would have been able to KEEP my job and prove myself. But i was given no such chance, just left on the cutting room floor. Such a shame.

Management needs to get the sticks out of their ..... I have managed before and treating your employees like the scum of the earth is not a good way to keep them doing their job. Policies change constantly and some are made up on the spot when it was never there to begin with. There was never clear procedures on those forever changing polices either so one supervisor would have you do it one way, and the other would have you do it another. FAVORITISM is very HIGH at this company. There are many managers, supervisors, and employees that should not work their based on their attitude and work ethics however they let some of their hardest working and best employees go over one mistake, often something that is not even in policy are has no negative impact on the business what so ever. They say they are are open, listen, and try their best to work with you, but when you bring an issue to the table they ignore it or bury it as must as they can.