Walmart reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(142,037 total reviews)
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John Furner

60% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Walmart has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 142,037 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Walmart employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Einzel- & Großhandel industry (3.5 stars).

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142K reviews
1.0
Sep 17, 2015

Sr. Director

Anonymous employee
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Pros

All advantages have been wasted away. Couple years back this outfit could have seriously challenged Amazon and the likes but likely it will not survive couple more years. Only pros as some have mentioned earlier are decent salaries while you really look for your next job away from madness and get your H1B done through them.Also if you are out of station candidate, use them to get your relocation done etc.

Cons

Just too many to list so will only mention themes- incompetent senior leadership (virtually bulk of VP+ folks), incompetent CEO who has no domain knowledge of the business, constant and maddening re-orgs to hide lack of work delivery, intense politics to get rid of people who can threaten survival of few top leaders who are mostly incompetent and ignorant, ludicrous leveling like few VPs who actually are senior manager level. If you are smart and can work for other top notch firms in the bay area like google, facebook, apple etc. then stay away unless you want to use them for relocation, H1B etc. as mentioned above. Every few months there are mass exits of people leaving voluntarily while the CEO and CTO spin stories to hide their incompetence and lack of knowledge. Excessive influence of Bentonville and they even inject their own clueless people in ecommerce arm. Most of them fail and waste more time while the world around Walmart.com is everyday innovating. I have a sell rating on this company. It likely will not even come close to giving Amazon any real competition.

1.0
Jul 16, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

- SB office easily accessible via 101 and 280 - Although the cafeteria food isn’t free, it’s cheaply priced - Parking garage is great - Big data is the only thing they do right

Cons

Oh boy, where to start… - Every year there is a mass exodus of folks once bonuses and equity is paid out – no surprise this year and as a result there are gaping holes as to what lies ahead. - Favoritism and politics rampant, it’s a toxic dump to say the least. If you speak the truth then you’re asking to get booted. - The idea of beating Amazon? Um, yeah just a pie in the sky! Why don’t you get your site working correctly first and prevent the daily fires from occurring? What don’t you do something innovative like you claim instead of playing catch up all the time? - Extremely top heavy with very few full timers at the bottom. The few that remain leave dissatisfied creating high turnover leaving the work for contractors or H1B Indians (which this place is full of). -Engineers and QA are over worked due to being understaffed, outrageous scope with crazy deadlines, sub par code quality, and legacy systems in place that never get fixed or updated. - Extremely uncooperative work environment. Don’t expect anybody to help you and if you find a problem, well then congrats it’s yours to fix! Along the same lines, don’t expect much documentation to do your job well. - Annual reviews are a joke. Your bonus is dependent on brown nosing capability and not actual work/performance. - Terrible health insurance and no 401K first year. - No engineering culture, just a sweatshop mentality. The @Labs division is no different. - The real reason they give a whopping sign on bonus is to lock people in from fleeing. - Nobody cares about you or your career, be ready to chart your own path and only if you’re good at kissing up. - Office is loud with disgusting washrooms.

2.0
Oct 19, 2014

Just a stepping stone

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Pros

- Good pay - Depending on what manager you have, work-life balance is very good and you get to work on some high-profile projects - Cafeteria is pretty decent - Here and there you still find some people who are smart and cool - They have a small gym you can use and have courses with qualified instructors

Cons

- This place has been flooded with all the people who got fired from Yahoo, eBay, Amazon and other corporations. All the top talent has left the organization. - Everything is political. You don't get the impression that people here are centered around a core purpose. - The engineering department is comprised of people that just don't have the skill level I'd expect from someone claiming to be senior. - They think that hiring more people is the solution to every problem. Since the people doing the hiring are mediocre, they hire more mediocre people and it's this self-perpetuating cycle of mediocrity. - There is no culture. There's this coldness in the air here. You don't get the feeling that you can walk up and talk to people. - There is no mentoring. No clear career path. You are on your own. - Most managers are insecure, and thus feel threatened when you ask why their proposal should be done and how it aligns with overall goals Overall, Walmart eCommerce has some large-scale problems they work on, which is fun for engineers for a while, but the atmosphere eventually wears you down. Most people here have no soul, no personality, they are completely assimilated into this machinery of politics, purposelessness and mediocrity.

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