Great First Professional Software Dev Job - Software Engineer Kohl's Employee Review

4.0
Jan 13, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Very flexible work schedule, come in around 9am, Work from home as desired Laid-back, friendly culture Competent, smart & friendly co-workers and management Great 401k plan Cafeteria with many options for breakfast and lunch Ability to go to conferences, company-paid Annual raises and bonus Short commute, low-traffic, located in a suburb of Milwaukee Can request MacBook Pro or ThinkPad, whichever you prefer

Cons

Many layers of management (manager, director, VP, SVP, CTO, President, CEO) Lack of investment in innovation (new CTO promises to help with that) Insane reliance on contractors (2-8 FTE to contractor ratio, though changing) California office has too much power Too many meetings Large amount of bureaucracy & red tape Recent 2018 + 2019 layoffs under CEO Michelle have left a bad taste in the Technology department

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Cons

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3.0
Jun 29, 2026
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Pros

managers can be friendly at times

Cons

Little to no training been working here for almost a year now there’s still something I don’t know every day. What was most difficult for me was being at registers as I was trained in two days by shadowing someone. There are so many situations and problems that will come up every day and you will learn something new! They never taught me about Kohl’s cash, how to read receipts, reprint or edit receipts. They schedule so little so when you do learn something there’s no chance of rehearsal because you come in three weeks later working at a different department.

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