Walmart has been a great place to work, especially for gaining exposure to large-scale systems and cross-functional collaboration. The work is impactful, and there are plenty of opportunities to learn from talented teammates and take ownership of meaningful projects.
Leadership is generally supportive, and the company encourages continuous learning and career growth. The scale of the problems you get to work on helps build strong technical and business understanding.
Cons
Like any large organization, processes can sometimes take time, but overall it’s a rewarding environment with good work-life balance, competitive benefits, and strong career development opportunities.
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- Great individual engineers
- New campus is beautiful
- A lot of internal knowledge and tools
- Offers Coursera courses for learning
- The 10% discount card is nice
Cons
- Work-life balance is quite bad, with many teams requiring pager rotations and managers pinging after-hours
- Upper management is a carousel of people putting in their two years of experience before moving to another company for a fat signing bonus
- Lower management pushes you to use AI for 1/3+ of your work to suck as much "productivity" out of you as possible
- There's really no Walmart culture. Over my tenure I saw upper management claim we would remember Mr Sam and never become Amazon, and ten years later we were being run by ex-Amazon VPs and directors.
- Layoff waves are swift and without mercy
- Shutdown many of their diversity programs and rarely put out company-wide messages with any sort of spine
