lack of culture, talent and leadership kills what could be an exciting set of engineering problems - Staff Software Engineer Walmart Employee Review

3.0
Apr 2, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

+ expectations are not high + most employees work from the comfort of home + engineering challenges are certainly available + lots of talented aqui-hires around to learn from

Cons

+ expectations are not high + engineering culture is seriously lacking + lots of office politics + most employees choose to defer responsibility, creating lots of office politics + compensation is below average + major gap in culture & communication between American & Indian employees + deploying services and managing deployed software operations is next to impossible + many teams have very long release cycles (most many years before product launches)

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

Advancement opportunities, great at developing skills, great place to learn a skill and grow your resume, or grow with the company.

Cons

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Walmart Response
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Thank you so very much for this review and advice. We value this and will be sharing with our leadership teams.
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