Walmart Software Engineer reviews

4.1

86% would recommend to a friend

(482 total reviews)
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John Furner

100% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Software Engineer ||| employees have rated Walmart with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 482 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer ||| professionals have an excellent working experience there. Walmart is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer ||| professionals compared to other employers within the Vendita al dettaglio e all'ingrosso industry (3.5 stars).

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482 reviews
3.0
Aug 10, 2014
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Pros

The company offers good facilities like cab to and fro work. It also have a well decked pantry stock and food options in the cafeteria for free. It is a fairly liberal workplace in terms of attire, interactions and others. The office provides a nice environment.

Cons

Outdated technologies often like ATG, and others which may not be what a fresh grad may want to work on to further his or her career. Hardly algorithmically challenging work, which would make one solve real technology problems. The problem solving is more for business problems.

1.0
Jul 28, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

lots of opportunities decent benefits/compensation very nice colleagues new building in Sunnyvale is top of line office buildings In order to success in this company you have to meet certain traits,

Cons

despite its IT department, the company applied some harsh policy from store to engineers as well, etc, only get employee discount benefits after 3 months, can only get certain some cheap insurance the same of the store employees, can only have 6 legal holidays per year. the reward system is not about your talent or how much you can achieve but how much you are flattering your superiors, and the talkers got the most rewards. the company culture is dominated by certain group of people with certain foreign culture, whoever are not part of that group inborn will be alienated and treated unfairly. I have heard other colleagues complaining difficult to get promoted here, that is only because you meet one of the following condition 1) your boss is in that certain group while you are not 2) you are not flattering hard enough 3) you are working too hard that jeopardize your boss' limited managing ability 4) you know too much and has certain eagle or ambition inside of you and if you got 2 of 4, you should not count your bonus to be a good or even getting ready to be fired. the managers only care about immediate interests, making judgement based on benefits of themselves. the managers has no sense of righteousness or integrity, I have seen many cases that they encroached x-employees' IPs, how do they sleep well stealing other people's work like that.

1.0
Mar 17, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation is above-average for the area There are a few good developers and managers around Small discount on purchases at Walmart stores and on walmart.com after 3 months of employment

Cons

Much of the engineering staff (developers, managers, and VPs) is unfriendly; inter-team cooperation is tenuous at best Managers are given preference over developers for promotions, raises, and other rewards The offices are very loud: low-walled cubicles and (on the Sunnyvale campus) meeting rooms without doors right next to cubicle farms QA is essentially non-existent; generally, the few QA engineers at Walmart have very poor technical skills Poor NOC/DevOps support; developers are always on-call Tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.) have all been geared toward project management instead of development/collaboration The Walmart implementation of Scrum is a joke: it's been implemented so that managers can micro-manage employees, not so that developers can work better or faster Management pushes employees to deliver software quickly instead of striving for well-documented, easily-maintainable, and well-tested code Top-down communication is pretty terrible overall The culture revolves around having lots of meetings, and meetings often start 15 or 20 minutes late

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