Walmart

They are currently paying a high salary and an excellent sign-up bonus to woo candidates. The benefits are probably among the worst in Silicon Valley; however, you can purchase nice medical insurance with the additional money they will give you.

Work-life balance is generally good unless you are in a group that is production-facing. If you are at an executive level, as long as you do not want to execute your passion, this is a fantastic place to stay. Most of the talented executives have left the company; hence, if you actually understand technology and do not interfere in the power politics of the highest leadership, it is a decent place to stay.

There are still quite a lot of smart engineers in this company. Many of them are Indian or Chinese, and these guys may be stuck there for their Green Card.

You will learn about the retail business.

The CTO lacks passion and vision. They purchased a few small companies in the last 2-3 years and made some of the guys from those small companies VPs and Senior Directors. It is very straightforward to understand these small, failed startup executives seriously lack experience and they also do not really have any passion or interest for real work. Very interestingly, some of them have formed political networks to help each other rise the corporate ladder. You can investigate on LinkedIn by looking at the experience of some of their senior directors and VPs who came from small startups. Many of these guys are quite inefficient and unethical. They can conspire quite viciously to manipulate data to show success, or they can also conspire to evict any of their peers who may compete with them. All these created an uncouth environment with several unethical people at the top leadership. Hence, this place can no longer be a reasonable choice.

The medical plan is also getting reduced almost every year, and the benefits are probably the worst in the industry.

The entire office looks very cheap. They literally want to save money on anything, and then they also don't pay well the ground-level workers in stores. Overall, they made Sam Walton's words an excuse for spending no money for the betterment of the office experience or the lives of their employees.

The current management is unfortunately rotten from the top, and no advice will help them. Walmart needs to lay off some of the executives, particularly those who came from small companies.