Walmart Software Developer reviews

4.1

86% would recommend to a friend

(482 total reviews)
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John Furner

100% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Walmart with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 482 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Walmart is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Einzel- & Großhandel industry (3.5 stars).

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482 reviews
3.0
May 1, 2017

Software developer

Recommend
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Pros

- good work life balance - good perks, and supportive people

Cons

- very few team works on good technology so very less to learn

1.0
Apr 22, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

None that I can think of at the moment. Just a place where I would get a paycheck. I met some of my closets friends there...that is all.

Cons

Meetings that take up development time. Higher up people have no sense or idea of technology, all too business sided. Culture is more trying to "beat" Amazon rather than being innovative and being its own company. Vendors have more say and power in projects than actual associates. No transparency at all with managers and directors. Work was not simulating and constant changes and really no guidance impeded a lot of development. People were readily to blame rather than accept fault.

1.0
Feb 9, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance Sunnyvale location competitive pay a *handful* of smart people

Cons

Horrible management - absolutely amateurs when it comes to "leading" the company. There is so much of politics and promotions are decided on the basis of who can indulge in more bootlicking of the management. It gets frustrating when you realize that you could have just slacked off instead of working hard with so much passion to be where you are. Some people who got promoted don't even know what they were doing! What was the basis of promotions? And then these layoffs - some of them were very talented, hardworking people who sucked at politics. So there you go - talent does not matter in this company. The good talent leaves, the rest just make things worse for the ones who stay. Don't even think this place comes close to the top companies in terms of benefits, work culture or organization. The Cat Dev team is a joke that keeps doing reorgs thinking new management can solve their problems when in reality they are unable to find respectable, experienced people to lead. STAY AWAY from this place - it used to be a place where you could stay to get a regular paycheck but looks like even that doesn't hold with the layoffs.

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