Software Developer nightmare - Software Developer Meijer Employee Review

1.0
1 Mar 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Mostly nice people to work with. The culture was okay. The remodeled building for IT was nice.

Cons

Terrible IT management, especially upper management. The pay is very low compared to any other company (example: I nearly doubled my pay by leaving Meijer for another dev job). They will not even try to match pay or take feedback to make the place better in order to keep talent. Out of the couple teams I was on, point of sale was the worst. I had many 70-80 hour weeks with no additional pay or comp time. Both teams I was on had managers leave. One left the company, the other was moved to another team and was never replaced. I spent a lot of time converting old apps and servers from server 2003 (VBScript/javascript junk) to server 2008 (C# .NET 4.6/MVC/SQL), when server 2012 was already available. They are too cheap to just do things the right way. When given options on how to fix or develop something, there was not a single time they didn't choose the band-aid fix. There are far too many old school people in management that just don't understand that younger generations are different. I don't say that expecting everything my way, but they are very adverse to change. If you value your life/time/family, do not work here. You could lose it all.

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5.0
26 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great company and benefits. The Meijer Credit Union is amazing and being able to work remote is a blessing.

Cons

Not much recognition for individual contribution. Recognition systems on the whole are great though especially for the company's size

2.0
20 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Direct coworkers were great to work with. I also enjoyed being left to do my work and not babysat by management.

Cons

Management doesn't know what they are doing. Resets and floor plans were regularly not done properly. The store I worked at has a skeleton crew so I never got help (but was expected to stop everything I'm going to go help other departments/areas). Also meaning good luck to any customers needing help, especially when I was the only person working my area of the store, so when I wasn't there, no one was. Management also regularly disappeared into the offices or were on vacation. Also was terminated for reasons outside my control even though I was told they look at the reasons for attendance incidents before termination. Never got to get the FMLA or accommodation to my doctors before being terminated two days after I requested them. Didn't bother asking for a raise either. I did multiple times and got nothing.

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