Hi Blind Community, Title of the post itself should be sufficient enough but explaining in detail so that your career stays on track. Background: Walmart recently sold ASDA (UK retailer) and is planning to transition all the work happening in Sunnyvale (SV) office to Bangalore as a move to lower costs. Such transition is happening across Walmart but Asda is the first to start this transition. Due to this, Walmart IDC is on a hiring spree to take transition from SV office. If you have got a interview recently or get it in the next 3-4 months, please do not even appear for an interview as Walmart and ASDA are both a sinking ship. Listing down few reasons for not taking up the offer. These are not applicable just for ASDA but is a story for Walmart in general. 1. ASDA or for that Walmart in general isn’t a pure tech company with a Product mindset. 2. It is Infosys/Wipro type of a company where you work on whatever ‘business’ teams (read it as client) tell you to do. 3. Tech stack is extremely pathetic and our infrastructure did not even scale to the COVID demand 4. Engineering leaders do not have the audacity to achieve excellence 5. Lack of product company culture 6. Lack of promotions and recognition for the good work done 7. Product leaders (only on paper) do not decide product strategy but are only people managers with no background from top tier Product companies (Uber/Amazon/Google). 8. Asda tech work will be outsourced to a services firm after the transition to new owner will be completed and then you will be again in the market to look out for a job. Teams here are expecting that to happen 18 months from now. 9. No more business class travel due to COVID 10. Do you still need more reasons to NOT join?? If you happen to join even after reading this post or you didn’t read this post but joined later, your career is doomed! You will regret it in the first 6 months itself.! Selling ASDA itself should ring enough bells to not join! Walmart.com is also transitioning lot of work to Bangalore. SK hasn’t brought in any value that would change the way we work! I hope that current employees in Walmart (IDC/SV) make this post viral enough so that others get to see this post! Remember - You were warned! #walmart #Walmart ecommerce #Asda #walmartidc #sunnyvale #donotjoin #tech #bangalore
Tell trump to add more visa bans :)
Current Walmart employee here worked for amazon before . Work wise culture wise Walmart is much better compared to amazon . Moreover In amazon have seen employees constantly being worried abt dev plan and pip . No such headache here. Of all the companies I worked for Walmart I found is the best wrt pay benefits wlb #ThisIsThePlace
Bro u know how many people are jobless?
It is worse than it sounds. Walmart Alum here.
Aye. I fully concur with this
Every single time a company does these transition to India, it never works always backfires and the product suffers big time. What a waste of time and resources.
This happens everytime a company transitions to India due to rapid cost cutting measures, not when it is a well thought of, strategic measure. I know of tons of companies doing great work from India centers without screwing it up.
There is no harm in giving interview and using offer
It all depends on the team at Walmart to be honest. Some teams are exactly like OP described, full on services mindset and culture. Others are very tech oriented product culture based. I have noticed the culture boils down to the manager and director at Walmart. If they are from service based companies, they bring in their culture. If they are from product based companies, they bring in theirs. It's a luck of the draw at the end of the day if you are a newcomer. And internal transitions are possible only after 18 months in the current role. Just laying out the facts!
I had got an offer from international marketplace.. Bangalore... Thankfully rejected it... Is it really that bad in all teams under IM.?
It is a complete mess - they have just branded it well but slowly the reality is coming out! I am expecting lot many folks putting similar threads in coming months!
Wow.. thanks man.. :) rejected it just 3 days before joining...
K. Its not as bad as you make it sound. Walmart alum here.
May be this is how it is in Walmart International but the set up is better in Walmart US teams as Walmart wants to win the battle against Amazon!
It was worse than it sounds. Walmart alum here.