Walmart

• Chilled out and flexible environment based on your team.
• Good Table Tennis players.
• Really good company if you want to get into retail and understand the complete flow.
• PTOs are more as compared to other companies in the Bay Area, as they don't have Thanksgiving off ;)

If you are a new grad and want to learn something new, build out challenging products, then this is not the place for you. You will end up building services which are again integrated with other services, an ideal Service Oriented Architecture.

There are very few teams who actually do interesting stuff by doing classification, data mining, etc.

Very few teams follow a strict code review process. You will not learn different types of design patterns, best coding practices, etc. (This applies if you are a techie guy).

The average age of employees is much higher, and there are a lot of contractors.

The upper management only sees the outcome, no matter how you do it. There is no long-term vision about scalability, maintainability, cost of ownership, etc.

Lots of politics within the team as well.

• Host more campus events and attract new graduates who can effectively contribute to the organization.
• Offer free food to compete with other companies in the Bay Area, or at least subsidize the cost.
• Each team should have an architect responsible for a 5-10 year vision. This will help in architecting applications in a better and more scalable manner.