You most likely will not do any programming - Programmer Publix Employee Review

3.0
Mar 20, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

-Salary is decent -Benefits is decent -Managers are usually nice

Cons

-As a programmer you will be dealing with the bureaucracy of implementing technology, you will NOT be programming -Programmers do NOT program they simply work with vendors -Technology is very outdated -The computer you will use is very outdated -Your computer is a desktop -The free lunch is free but the food is no bueno -Health insurance is not the greatest -Some weeks you will work a lot because something stops working and this happens a lot. For a lot of the systems that you will be the primary, your backup person will not be able to help you when something goes wrong because the backup will never get to work on this project. Their name will be on the project, but their hours will be on the project where they are primary -People who have worked there for a long time are rude and just overall very negative about everything -No onboarding and training -A lot of programmers there just work there because it's pretty much one of the few places to work in Lakeland, not because they love it. And that shows! -They ask you why it's so hard to hire and keep programmers, you tell them the honest truth and they don't implement any changes

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
May 29, 2026
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Pros

Amazing 401K, free stock after one year of employment, health insurance is very good for part-time employees if only getting it for yourself, management always approves time off requests, hours are always available, will work around school schedules, tuition reimbursement program, will reimburse you for gas for work-related expenses as needed and will put you in a hotel as needed for work-related reasons that are more than 50 miles from your home.

Cons

Not every store is the same, some stores are run better than others, some managers look down upon people with disabilities, and some see people with disabilities the same as someone without disabilities, they are very big about favoritism, you have to work a lot to earn a vacation, the company does not give out sick time and full-time gets the most benefits and is next to impossible to get full-time. Also, you practically have to be a former employee with a clean record or related in some way to a current employee to get a job with the company though Kentucky Publix's don't quite function that way.

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