Quality Assurance Analyst • Current Employee
Pros: - Very friendly and understanding coworkers.
- In QA, we have a lot of meetings to share experience and feedback to help make things better and easier for every team member and customers.
- Supports team members in their talents and areas of interest and growth/potential.
- Management will do their best for you as often as they can in most circumstances.
- Flexible work-life, independence, great for introverts to still be connected and pivotal to the workings of Chewy.
- WFH is so nice!
- Health, eye, and dental insurance plans are pretty good.
- I worked very hard for a long time to get to this higher position and am very grateful to everyone who helped me get here. It's a lot comfier of a position than being a regular CSR, which feels good on my end, but I know it sucks for everyone else still in that starting position.
Cons: - Worked at the company as a CSR for 3-4 years before being promoted to manager, then moved to QA. CSR work is grueling, underpaid, stressful, and makes one feel under-appreciated by what compensation they received and feeling unheard when complaints are made.
- Time-off allowance has changed within the COVID years, and no one is happy with the change, but we have no power to change that ourselves. A union would probably be a good idea, to be honest.
- Overall, things have shifted from "customer-first" attitudes to "let's make our shareholders happy and get as much money for the company as possible." This has shifted the tone from a pretty familial one to a rather strict, corporate one.
- In my state, my salary is not enough to use as a livable wage, even at a high position like management/QA.
- Manipulative language is used to try and appease team members without actually giving them what they want, e.g., more time off and better pay, clear and transparent communication, etc.
- Rewarded with empty words of gratitude and 'kudos' used only to purchase Chewy-work-related goods. Pretty disappointing that these could be worth actual money, but they choose to keep limits on how you can use it to what they want you to.
- HR can be difficult to work with. My COVID experience was rough, and I was nearly not paid for the full week of my being ill due to a misunderstanding on my end and unclear directions on theirs.