Walmart

Work-life balance Sunnyvale location Competitive pay A handful of smart people

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.

Look for talent in the org and fire the higher management that is expert in talking and is an absolute failure when it comes to walking. Laying off a handful of developers is not going to help solve anything if the management itself is directionless and inexperienced. They just got stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time.