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Want to learn how’s company culture and work environment and growth at Walmart and Home Depot. Appreciate if there are any specific pointers about design culture/ teams too. #walmart #thehomedepot #culture #growth #tech #ux #uxdesigner #designer
Both more politics than amazon
You don't even work in either of the companies
Can confirm. Don't listen to the bozo.
Home Depot is very relaxed depending on the team. The technology is modernish (again depending on team). Career growth is dependent on your manager but moving teams is easy. At worst you can pretty much expect a guaranteed promotion in 3 years. Vacation is the most restrictive though some managers don’t track it. I had 10 days officially but used more like 15-20. I went from SE to Senior SE in slightly under 3 years. My salary went 85k -> 103k -> 113k. RSU is ~15k/yr with a 2-2 vesting cycle. Bonus is about 10k. ESPP is 15% discount and HD stock is solid. Yearly comp bump is 2-4% depending on performance. You won’t be making crazy FAANG money but you could probably get by working 30 hours a week. (I used to work 9-4 with lunch break lol) Not at HD anymore (left a few month ago). My HD TC was ~125k Senior Engineer.
Just noticed you were interested in the design culture. UX is embedded into each team. They call it a balanced stool (PM/UX/Eng). The UX Org felt less corporate since it is smaller. UX designers make a little less than engineers.
My experience is very similar to yours. I started at THD 6 years ago (wow) and I went from 82k -> 150k. I have been on the cusp of tech lead for a while, but I’d say the promotion path from SWE - > SWE2 -> Sr SWE is pretty straight forward. I’ve heard the same for my UX friends. It seems like the promotion timeline to get to staff UX/SWE is where the timetable goes out the window and it’s more related to your project/budget/development/manager expectations. All in all, I’d say the company culture is fantastic. Great work life balance (I work ~20/25 hours a week) and a lot of learning opportunities. In the departments I’ve worked in (cloud WWW and Store dev) we are constantly working on implementing new technologies across our dev and monitoring stacks. I’ve been on 2 teams, and none of my managers have tracked PTO so I have unlimited PTO. I don’t feel discouraged to take PTO either, I usually take 20+ days of PTO a year, but that’s very team dependent. Hope this helps!
Walmart is like Indian soap operas. A lot of drama and no action.