Not developer friendly - Software Engineer III Chewy Employee Review

1.0
May 13, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The facilities team at the Minneapolis office is pretty great. We get free parking everyday and free lunch thrice a week

Cons

Too much unnecessary process that slows down or makes it impossible to do everyday tasks for software engineers and not enough process that actually helps to create, maintain and deploy quality code fast and easy. Code duplication is always encouraged over code reuse, resulting in too much code to maintain. There are hundreds(literally!) of code repos that do the exact same thing. The company spends too much money on licensed tools even in cases where there are equivalent or better open source tools. And then turns around and fires engineers in the name of cost cutting

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5.0
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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
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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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