Walmart

Lots of opportunities. Decent benefits/compensation. Very nice colleagues. The new building in Sunnyvale is a top-of-the-line office building.

In order to succeed in this company, you have to meet certain traits.

Despite its IT department, the company applied harsh policies, from the store to engineers as well. Employees only get employee discount benefits after 3 months. They can only get certain cheap insurance, the same as store employees. They can only have 6 legal holidays per year.

The reward system isn't about talent or achievements, but how much you flatter superiors. Talkers receive the most rewards.

The company culture is dominated by a certain group of people with a specific foreign culture. Those not part of that group are alienated and treated unfairly.

I have heard colleagues complain about difficulty getting promoted. This is only because you meet one of the following conditions:

• Your boss is in that certain group while you are not.
• You are not flattering hard enough.
• You are working too hard, jeopardizing your boss's limited managing ability.
• You know too much and possess ambition.

If you have two of these conditions, you should not count on a bonus or expect to avoid being fired.

The managers only care about immediate interests, making judgments based on their own benefits.

The managers have no sense of righteousness or integrity. I have seen many cases where they encroached on ex-employees' IPs. How do they sleep well, stealing other people's work like that?

Diversify your team, discipline all your managers or fire them. Make plans based on the long term. Seriously consider the difficulties of the team and stop dreaming big. Stop all the political craziness and actually do something.

I cannot believe the delivery goal slipped 3 years and nothing effective is done from the management level.