Pros: Good technology stack. Good technology stack.

Cons: Less parking, less space, missing diversity.

Pros: Compensation is above-average for the area. There are a few good developers and managers around. Small discount on purchases at Walmart stores and on walmart.com after 3 months of employment.

Cons: Much of the engineering staff (developers, managers, and VPs) is unfriendly; inter-team cooperation is tenuous at best. Managers are given preference over developers for promotions, raises, and other rewards. The offices are very loud: low-walled cubicles and (on the Sunnyvale campus) meeting rooms without doors right next to cubicle farms. QA is essentially non-existent; generally, the few QA engineers at Walmart have very poor technical skills. Poor NOC/DevOps support; developers are always on-call. Tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.) have all been geared toward project management instead of development/collaboration. The Walmart implementation of Scrum is a joke: it's been implemented so that managers can micromanage employees, not so that developers can work better or faster. Management pushes employees to deliver software quickly instead of striving for well-documented, easily-maintainable, and well-tested code. Top-down communication is pretty terrible overall. The culture revolves around having lots of meetings, and meetings often start 15 or 20 minutes late.

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 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. 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 it looks like even that doesn't hold with the layoffs.