Poor leadership running the company into the ground - Software Engineer Chewy Employee Review

2.0
Feb 13, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Good salary, that's about it

Cons

Poor Leadership, doesn't care about you Micro-managing, tracking your work/PR's Return to office You will be thrown under the bus Demo with 0 heads up Work/responsibility above your level Stock options are monopoly money, IPO'd at 22 and now at 16 Will be told you will get growth opportunities, this is a pipe dream

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5.0
Jun 11, 2026
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Pros

Smart people, tech at industry level

Cons

Dipping stock each quarter, noticeable cost cutting (parking fee, paid snacks)

3.0
Jun 17, 2026
Anonymous employee
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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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