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There is scale, and then there is Walmart scale

Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Walmart for 20 years
April 25, 2019
Bentonville, Arkansas
5.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

The sheer size of the retail operations presents some one-of-a-kind challenges to work on.

The company is big and diverse enough that you can jump around and feel like you've moved to a whole other company.

Cons

It's undergoing a transformation from a lot of legacy tech. Technical debt and people debt get in the way sometimes.

Can't use AWS for anything, so it sometimes means having to re-invent the wheel.

Advice to Management

We keep smoothing out the culture and pretty soon we won't be different.

Sundown Rule, Ten foot Rule, Grassroots, etc.

The Walmart-specific culture mix is being left behind hastily.

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