Costco Wholesale Software Engineer Reviews

Pros

Good work life balance. Good culture.

Cons

Commute in the mornings can be chaotic.

Pros

pay is good when full

Cons

no freedom of time to give

Pros

Costco is a great company to work for! Everyone is super friendly and supportive. Costco culture and work life balance is excellent. Compensation and benefits are great also. The company truly cares about it employees.

Cons

Takes a while for engineers to get access to resources to allow them to do their work.

Pros

Pay breaks. Face peace job

Cons

Worst leadership. Management sucks. Big time

Pros

good benefits and decent paying

Cons

flexible and good environment to work

Pros

great pay for beginners compare to other places

Cons

Lunch time used your personal time

Pros

For reference, this is in the member service branch of the company, not corporate IT - Very nice gym on campus available to employees - Great work life balance - Not a lot of red tape - Fantastic health insurance - Free Costco Membership

Cons

- Garbage yearly raise - max raise of 2.99% - Absolutely no flexibility in remote work - we are required to be in office without explanation - Management is stretched far too thin - People are often promoted due to seniority rather than skill, leading to enormous growing pains for new managers and those working under them - Not nearly enough oversight on processes or requirements from business - eg: they ask, we do, no questions asked - Often working lead multiple projects at once - No project management - No business analysis for projects - No sort of analysis before projects are moved forward to development - Team is far too small - Pay is not competitive with the market - Unrealistic timelines - Not a lot of opportunity for growth

Pros

Good company and people, loyalty to employees, almost a family approach to HR.

Cons

Lagging infrastructure, can very hard to accomplish the simplist of things.

Pros

No best reasons to work at Costco.

Cons

Don’t work to hard, they will retaliate you.

Pros

Good work/ life balance Three weeks of vacation after 5 years You really have to screw up to get fired

Cons

Little flexibility in working remotely (it was strongly opposed during Covid until forced) Mediocrity is encouraged - someone who contributes heavily will get the same fixed raise as another employee who phones it in. There isn't a great career path - many roles only have three promotion tiers and the last one can be very difficult to achieve. You really have to screw up to get fired (this is a pro and con. People can really not care about anything but the bare minimum and won't get fired or disciplined - they just get less work which in turn gets pawned off on more responsible people).