Hy-Vee Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Hy-Vee part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – They hire a lot of people and are very flexible in terms of scheduling, number of hours, and stuff like that. You'll probably start as a bagger but there's lots of other places in the store you could end up working in as little as a few months. Other employees are fun.

Cons – The management takes it way too seriously, the dress code gets annoying after a while and it's no fun to wear those clothes and move around for 8 hours a day.

Advice to Senior Management – It is literally impossible for us to greet every customer and also get the work done that you want us to get done.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hy-Vee part-time for less than a year

Pros – - friendly environment
- great scheduling
- choose the department you want

Cons – - bad management
- don't listen to what I want
- some employees don't do their job

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your employees especially when they have a problem with a coworker. When someone doesn't do their job do something about it otherwise some one else is left with the work load.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hy-Vee part-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Good benefits, flexible schedules, Some really great managers that will work with you and try their best.

Cons – Miserable working atmosphere, biased management, lack of training in some stores, Several biases when advancing employees to regular and full- time.

Advice to Senior Management – Company wide training program and make it mandatory for Dept. managers and assistant managers to attend Hy-Vee University.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Hy-Vee

Pros – Quite a friendly place to work.

Cons – Hours can be non-existent. If you are trying to support a family, get another job.

Former Employee – worked at Hy-Vee part-time for more than a year

Pros – All the other employees were really nice people to work with. My manager also worked with me to schedule my hours around my other responsibilities.

Cons – I had applied for a job in a particular part of the store because I wanted to learn a trade, but I was actually placed in another part of the store, which I had not applied for. I accepted the position, but I found I was not the only employee with that experience.

Former Employee – worked at Hy-Vee part-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Flexible, great customer interaction everyday

Cons – Low pay, not a lot of room for advancement

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of politics

Current Employee – been working at Hy-Vee part-time for less than a year

Pros – Great atmosphere Friendly people great managers. Flexibility is good managers work with you

Cons – Hard to move within the company, some managers are hard to deal with

Advice to Senior Management – Promote those who are going above and beyond what the managers tell them

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hy-Vee part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The hours you work are pretty flexible.

Cons – Take a very long time to move up in company

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Hy-Vee part-time

Pros – Nice people good with working around busy lives

Cons – sometimes can be very stressful

Current Employee – been working at Hy-Vee part-time for more than a year

Pros – it's a nice place to work with great co-workers.nice and willing to do their best for the benefit of the company. everybdoy who work at hy-vee has that sense of spreading a great smile to customers and earns the rerspect and attention from customers in return. like the company because it's a great company but do need some internal works to do. there won't be a full picture if few pieces of a puzzle are missing.

Cons – every hy-vee may be different. but in my hy-vee store the management has to cooperate more with the workers as a full or part timer it's crucial and essential for the development of the company.if we all are the same, so consideration to each other should be a plus. taking feedback from the employees is a plus but the management does not do that which i consider a poison to the development of the company. if you are a manager in charge of a specific department and made some recent changes and did not communicate with the employees how do you want they to provide a better service to the customer who help make your living better. as you smile everyday you bring food to home and make your family happy you should be thankfull to the customers who did choose your store among several of them in your location to keep you in business. therefore communication is a key for better service as we do believe the customer is always right and who ever works at hy-vee should know what RIGHT stands for.my biggest issue is that hy-vee needs to develop a better recruiting system. most of the employees anr part timer and high school etc. it's great to offer those young employer an opportunity to feel the real professional world. but what you the management you are doing to help them understand that? how to encourage them to offer their best to the customer and invest themselves to thye company? do you management respond to the employees needs, requests by accomodating their availabilities? i gues those are questions managers should ask themselves first. most likely some of those employees do not care if the management does not show any effort to communicate with them and motivate them. let's keep up good work.

Advice to Senior Management – -get feedbacks from customers as employees.
-management and employees meetings to fix little internal issues
-avoid management individualism( it's a poison because they don't usually know more than we employees dealing straight with custiomers do.) sorry but that's sad but true.
use the new technology to communicate. what a waste of time to post a schedule and let employees come in the store or call to check their work schedule which sometime does not work best for them because their availability hasn't been truly considered. email them the schedule please. saddly suprising that most of the employees don't have their managers email etc . which they should ask but it's a manager responsability to provide if it's not ask. first step to get closer to your employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend