If you want to write the next Dilbert, plenty of material here - Software Engineer Michaels Employee Review

1.0
12 May 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Despite being incredibly incompetent, they managed to hire some really smart and amazing people to work with.

Cons

Oh gosh. So much is terrible. Everyone's leaving, unless leadership is able to burn them out to prevent them from interviewing. Let's encapsulate everything in one anecdote. The CIO got his old CEO friend to hire him, started butting in to every decision just to leave his mark, then promised to rewrite the website all by himself in one month. After one month, he gave up and instead got permission to hire 200 people. He gave them what he'd "worked on": an Excel file of some database tables for a Point of Sale system that he blatantly plagiarized from the public API Javadoc of another POS software product. The tables had 2 columns: name and description. But description was a copy of the name, without the underscores. When asked what some fields were for, he said he didn't know and also mentioned that he wrote most of it while drinking whiskey. His original ridiculous deadline remained unchanged, the devs had to start before the UI designs were done, he brought in a shadow UI team to polish and rewrite the UI, demanded a UI rewrite anyway 2 weeks before it was due, all just to have something to show his CEO friend over lunch. Then they threw it out and started over 2 weeks after the deadline. It didn't get any better to work there, afterwards.

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5.0
23 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You work at a craft store. Discount! Wonderful work environment

Cons

Low low pay! Yarn Low pay!

3.0
24 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Relatively easy job, lots to keep you busy and moving if you hate a stationary job. Easy to keep moving up from this role. The right team will make this your favourite role! Perfect job if you enjoy being the solution for everyday problems (just get your pay's worth).

Cons

Far too many hats, as Michaels tends to understaff. Can be a real slog with lack of support for training and followup coachings for cashiers. Hard to recommend this job long-term due to typically low entry pay, and pay gaps in similar management roles caused by company decisions over the last half decade or so.

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