Avoid this team, unless you want to work for someone else's salary increase - Senior Individual Contributor Chewy Employee Review

3.0
Feb 3, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Reliable and consistent pay with full time hours. Strong peer level collaboration and supportive teammates. The company continues to grow and expand into new initiatives. Ongoing development and evolution across the organization.

Cons

Senior management demonstrates consistent weaknesses in leadership and communication. Decision making is opaque, and there is a noticeable culture where feedback is encouraged in formal settings such as surveys or HR led initiatives but rarely reflected in actual change. There is a clear disconnect between leadership and individual contributors. Input from frontline employees is often dismissed, or misrepresented, or at times even used for discredited to the owner, while questions that challenge existing processes are perceived negatively rather than constructively. This has contributed to extreme low trust, reduced engagement, and severe hesitation on speaking openly. There have been concerning patterns in how talent decisions are made. Perceptions of favoritism exist, and performance based criteria do not always appear to be applied consistently across hiring, development, and termination decisions. Operationally, change initiatives often originate at the senior leadership level without sufficient focus on improving existing tools or involving the employees responsible for using them. New processes are implemented with limited training, testing, or use of relevant expertise within the team, leading to inefficiencies and unnecessary confusion. Overall, the environment reflects a heavily top down structure that limits collaboration and undervalues contributor level insight.

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5.0
Jun 21, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Would recommend working at chewy

Cons

There are no cons to working at chewy

3.0
Jun 17, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some perks such as pet adoption reimbursement, sort of flexible schedule, learning opportunities.

Cons

We have transitioned into the Chewy family recently and it started out promising but has quickly become quite the opposite. Management put in place to oversee the business (1 or 2 in particular) have been nothing but degrading and nasty to people - for things that were out of our hands due to direction of previous management. They did a reorg recently which had a lot of questionable moves and claimed they want to go deeper in expertise but that is not the case here. There are many people in roles that they shouldn’t be. The reorg also left many people in lower roles than what their actually doing, probably to avoid paying appropriately. We are also being held to different standards than other parts of the business in terms of the quality of output - We’re producing better but it’s still not good enough. They claim to be getting us more resources but we have not seen that yet. They hired one marketing leader but what we need is a true GM and proper support staff to execute things.not only “leaders”.

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