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The lack of culture, talent, and leadership kills what could be an exciting set of engineering problems.

Staff Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Walmart for 2 years
April 2, 2014
San Bruno, California
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Expectations are not high. Most employees work from the comfort of home. Engineering challenges are certainly available. Lots of talented aqui-hires are around to learn from.

Cons

Expectations are not high. Engineering culture is seriously lacking. There are lots of office politics. Most employees choose to defer responsibility, creating lots of office politics. Compensation is below average. There's a major gap in culture & communication between American & Indian employees. Deploying services and managing deployed software operations is next to impossible. Many teams have very long release cycles (most many years before product launches).

Advice to Management

Communication transparency should be made a priority, as the culture currently holds information as a form of power.

Most leaders at Walmart avoid making decisions themselves but aren't willing to delegate the responsibility. This basically results in no progress being made.

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