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Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Walmart for 2 years
February 12, 2016
San Bruno, California
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Competitive compensation, many technically strong developers, decent projects, good software development opportunities.

Good ping pong. Nice (but not free) lunch. Friendly people.

Cons

Lots of turnover. Too many reorgs. Too many restructurings. Layoffs. Tech redirections. Over-engineering. Political battles. Strange behavior. Big company woes. Hierarchical and top-heavy.

Advice to Management

Improve the dev process. Give more ownership to developers instead of controlling everything top-down. When things are broken, don't let technical debt grow for 3 years and force abandoning the product of hard work and high costs. We need better communication across teams. No more enclaves.

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