What is the hiring process like at Hy-Vee?

Friendly environment with team, decent tips, and great hours

Poor management and process in place, cooks and server are never coordinated, managers are rude, and fear mongering

The work is not very difficult, and you know what to expect each day.

The wages are not great, and some store directors intentionally don't give raises to long-time employees to keep costs down while hiring new employees for more than long-time employees make.

I recently joined Hy-Vee, and my initial experience has been very positive. The onboarding process was smooth and well organized. The work culture is friendly, collaborative, and encourages teamwork. Hy-Vee also offers food and transportation facilities for employees, which adds to the overall positive experience.

Since I’m new, I haven’t faced any major challenges yet.

The company values and morals were great, and I think that generally most of my co-workers enjoyed working at Hy-vee. Their training process was easy, and generally pain-free. Some of it was a bit monotonous since the majority of the training was on the computer, but overall, I found it to be informative, and it helped me better prepare for when it actually came time to be on the floor.

I felt my rate of pay was an insult. I started at $15.00 an hour, and that is simply not a living wage. I can see how the high school students who I worked with at Hy-vee might be able to live with that, but as an adult, trying to pay my rental fees, living expenses, and pay for my life in general, I thought that pay rate made me feel as though my work was not valuable to the company.

Very flexible schedules. Which makes it a great job for during college.

Doesn't always have the highest standards when hiring new employees.

The work-from-home and hybrid options are nice

Messy Codebase: Nobody seems to know how anything works, or what anything does. Many critical applications have been written long ago by people that are no longer employed by Hy-Vee. There is not much in the way of coding standards or useful documentation. Changes that should take minutes take hours, days, or even weeks because of the mountain of process, research, and paperwork required to get anything done. Lack of Work/Life balance: Management doesn't mind requiring team members to work into the night or over the weekend. I understand it is sometimes necessary to work extra hours to meet deadlines, not ideal but it happens. This is worse than that. Sometimes meetings are scheduled early in the morning, sometimes teams are required to do things over a weekend that could easily be done during normal working hours. Additionally, many teams are required to participate in an on-call rotation. This was not mentioned during the interview process. Quarterly Bonus The bonuses are a joke. All four added together amount to about 1-2%.

My coworkers in meat are cool, the job makes conversation easy

Working anywhere aside from the meat department is less interesting, they took our free meals away, they made the discount inaccessible with the $25 minimum

It is a good flexible job.

They use to give out a good number of hours per week, but just like 2-3 months ago they cut everyone's hours with no explanation why, but they still keep hiring more people almost all the time. It makes no sense.

Scheduling is pretty flexible and other employees are lovely

All new store management wasn't the best. New director is completely impersonal and disorganised.

There was nothing redeeming about this place.

Applied for a full-time pharmacy tech position, was told I was getting a full-time pharmacy tech position when I was hired, but they put me on a cash register in the pharmacy and gave me 18-20 hours a week, saying they first wanted their tech to get to know the customers. I was told I'd be doing that for a couple of weeks, then trained on the pharmacy's software and put on the schedule as a full-time tech. It never happened. There was one pharmacist and she said she didn't have time for to train. One pharmacy tech was supposed to train me, but he didn't bother. He told me to just run the front and he'd get to me when he could. I never got an account for the software they used, either. When I complained, the head pharmacist said it was HR's problem and HR said pharmacy took care of that. They hired another pharmacy tech and she got to actually be a tech rather than start out as a cashier. When I asked the HR manager about that, she said that was because the tech worked at HyVee before. When I asked about my training, I was told "What training? You're part-time. We don't hire part-time techs." When I said I was offered a full-time tech position, she said I was "misremembering things" until I pulled up the e-mail on my phone that confirmed I was hired as a pharmacy technician. Then it was, "She's certified, you're just a trainee." I said I was certified by the state to be a pharmacy tech and had provided proof of that. The next excuse was, "Well, the only open position at the time was for a cashier." Now, in the time I had been employed, there were three pharmacy techs (one part-time), one pharmacist and six cashiers. They were pulling pharmacists and pharmacy techs from other stores to cover shifts. Nobody else quit or was hired between the time I started working there and the new tech was hired. I stopped trying at that point, just ran the register and in my spare time, interviewed for new positions. Left within a month.