Walmart reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(142,437 total reviews)
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John Furner

57% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Walmart has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 142,437 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
3.0
Apr 28, 2014

Department Manager

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Pros

Pay is resonable depending on departments. I was able to move from stocker to department manager in 3 years. In one store (in Western USA), the managers cared about you and wanted you to succeed and taught you everything you needed to know. I had some personal issues arise and that store was more than willing to help me out in any way possible.

Cons

I worked 3 different stores in 6 years and in two different states, one in the west and the other 2 in the east, and all three were run differently depending on the store manager. The two managers on the east coast ran their stores differently from each other but neither was a good experience. Neither was involved with their associates or seem to acknowledge them unless something was wrong. One would sit in his office and the co-managers would all "run" the store and seeing as how they rotated, everything changed depending on who was working. The other store manager would just send his issues through the grapevine. Most of the work is 16hrs worth in a day that they want done in 8hrs because you're not allowed overtime and forget about having associates there to help you because "the schedule is what it is."

4.0
Apr 15, 2014

Fast growing division within Walmart with startup culture

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Very solid foundation backed by the big Walmart. But the Walmart eCommerce division is small enough to enable us try new things in fast pace as other startups. Associates here are encouraged to adopt new technologies or invent new solutions if not found in the open source. Executives keep us informed with business status via monthly All Hands. Environment is considered work-life-balance as the organization expands to multiple locations where associates can choose to home base in nearby office location. Since we're growing and expanding very fast, there are plenty projects you can work on so as plenty opportunities available within the eCommerce division.

Cons

Sometime turf war got into way more often than trying to solve business problem as a whole. Not only is the original good idea stolen by other team who owns the turf, the ownership of a hot problem is often thrown between the fences which delays the resolution to our business user. Internal transfer between organizations could be difficult especially changing between two different VP organizations (turf war again rather treating talent as shared asset for the business).

4.0
Mar 20, 2014
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Pros

was able to get weekends off

Cons

never enough workers, management treats current workers as expendable and no longer gets many applications

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