- Work on massive scale distributed systems.
- Access to right industry practices and guidelines.
- Accessible platform teams for guidance.
- Hands on with many technologies outside of immediate responsibilities.
Cons
- Managers are nothing short of politicians and just act as friction.
- Have to balance work, political environment and optics.
- May degrade your motivation related to actual problem solving.
- Employees lack engineering depth.
Walmart Global Tech Response
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- Great individual engineers
- New campus is beautiful
- A lot of internal knowledge and tools
- Offers Coursera courses for learning
- The 10% discount card is nice
Cons
- Work-life balance is quite bad, with many teams requiring pager rotations and managers pinging after-hours
- Upper management is a carousel of people putting in their two years of experience before moving to another company for a fat signing bonus
- Lower management pushes you to use AI for 1/3+ of your work to suck as much "productivity" out of you as possible
- There's really no Walmart culture. Over my tenure I saw upper management claim we would remember Mr Sam and never become Amazon, and ten years later we were being run by ex-Amazon VPs and directors.
- Layoff waves are swift and without mercy
- Shutdown many of their diversity programs and rarely put out company-wide messages with any sort of spine
